How to Use food desert in a Sentence

food desert

noun
  • How to mitigate a food desert in the area?
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, this neighborhood is what might be called a food desert.
    — Ken Frazier, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • People who live in food deserts rely upon these small stores.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Some areas also are food deserts, with no grocery stores to tax.
    — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • Without this store, people in my rural area would live in a food desert.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Over the past three decades, the definition of a food desert has evolved.
    — Stephone Coward, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2021
  • At the time, the move was billed as a compromise that could help fill in the city’s food deserts.
    — Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Bonton’s also a food desert, a place with no easy access to healthy food.
    — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 14 May 2020
  • But waivers like this don’t address food deserts or access to healthy foods, Boys said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • About one in four people in Baltimore lives in a food desert.
    — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • And this could very well create a food desert situation for them.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, the plot was no more than dirt and a dream in an area of the city that was considered a food desert.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
  • Throughout the Black Belt, schools have been an oasis in a food desert.
    — al, 20 Sep. 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
  • She was raised with four siblings by her single mother in Harlem, a food desert.
    — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Well may be, uh, becoming, uh, a food desert on, on April 30th.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Mar. 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
  • People may want trees on or near their properties for shade or beauty, or as a source of food in a food desert.
    — Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
  • Of the six, Lakeland is the only neighborhood that is not a food desert.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Many of these neighborhoods are food deserts and that is magnified after a storm.
    — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Would an upscale bakery make the Seventh Ward less of a food desert?
    — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The farmer’s market is one of the city’s various efforts to combat food deserts.
    — Anna Beahm | [email protected], al.com, 11 June 2019
  • People would drive trucks of vegetables in, because Harlem was a food desert.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2024
  • And affordable, healthy groceries are even harder to come by in rural food deserts.
    — Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, food deserts have been increasingly featured in the news.
    — Gia Mora, Treehugger, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The area had been one of the city's food deserts — neighborhoods with little access to grocery stores.
    — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Her hope is for one day there to be a La Soupe in every food desert in Cincinnati.
    — Hannah Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The Oak Cliff area contains several food deserts.
    — Staff Artist, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • South End residents have said a food desert has been created in its absence.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 Dec. 2025
  • That area of Euclid was just one of dozens of food deserts in Cuyahoga County.
    — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 4 Oct. 2017

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