How to Use food desert in a Sentence

food desert

noun

• The area is a food desert, and its schools are failing.
  — Karlos K. Hill, CNN, 29 May 2021
• The area was previously the largest food desert in the city.
  — Amy Bartner, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
• Central Park is the closest thing to a food desert in NYC.
  — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2022
• Throughout the Black Belt, schools have been an oasis in a food desert.
  — al, 20 Sep. 2022
• Over the past three decades, the definition of a food desert has evolved.
  — Stephone Coward, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2021
• There are other factors that make a place a food desert.
  — Jessica Booth, Redbook, 29 Apr. 2019
• In fact, this neighborhood is what might be called a food desert.
  — Ken Frazier, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• It has long been considered a food desert because of the lack of grocery stores in the area.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Well may be, uh, becoming, uh, a food desert on, on April 30th.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• The arrival of Tops in 2003 was a godsend to an area that had been considered a food desert.
  — Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• About one in four people in Baltimore lives in a food desert.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Bonton’s also a food desert, a place with no easy access to healthy food.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 14 May 2020
• And that the unreasonable terms of model X Lee’s left Collinwood with a food desert.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• Stigler remembers talk of a park, a koi pond, and even a grocery store in an area that is well known as a food desert.
  — Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Without this store, people in my rural area would live in a food desert.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
• She was raised with four siblings by her single mother in Harlem, a food desert.
  — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The farmer’s market is one of the city’s various efforts to combat food deserts.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al.com, 11 June 2019
• The Vliet stand might be named the Oasis, Mueller said, for being an oasis of fresh produce in a food desert.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2020
• The store opened 19 years ago and became a neighborhood hub and gathering place in what had been a food desert.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• Some, as in the Boston Food Forest Coalition, are in areas of urban plight and food deserts.
  — Phil Lempert, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Fresh food takes root in Fairfax: Fairfax has been labeled a food desert, but that may be starting to change.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
• People who live in food deserts rely upon these small stores.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• And this could very well create a food desert situation for them.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• The area was a food desert and the Tops Friendly Markets was the only supermarket in the neighborhood.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Francis echoes this statement and wants to transform Park Heights from a food desert into a food oasis.
  — Stephanie García, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Every city council district has at least one defined food desert, and some have more.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al, 30 Oct. 2019
• And, of course, one in three African-Americans in Baltimore already lived in a food desert compared to one in 12 whites.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2021
• The east side neighborhood is a food desert and residents fought hard to get a grocery store before Tops opened in 2003.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 15 July 2022
• With the distance comes the hardship of living in a food desert, with a lack of grocery stores except for gas stations, like the Blue Gap Store, that sells some food items.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• And a pastor in North Carolina turns his food desert into a food oasis.
  — CNN, 22 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024