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ghost town

NOUN
  1. a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)

How To Use ghost town In A Sentence

  • A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
  • I think WoW's a hot virus -- it'll burn fast and two years from now WoW may be a ghost town *may* be The future of VWs over a quarter
  • Since that time many of these names have changed their spelling whereas others have become ghost towns or disappeared from the maps altogether.
  • The City, by contrast, is bustling with besuited business people during the week yet is almost a ghost town at weekends, when most shops and many bars and restaurants close due to lack of trade.
  • Worker dormitory suburbs already resemble ghost towns. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town,(Sentencedict) deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
  • But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns. Times, Sunday Times
  • Macau has the feeling of a ghost town or something out of a twilight zone episode.
  • To us --- to me anyway --- for the time we moseyed the dusty streets of Ghost Town, Marshall Wild Windy Bill McKay was as real a lawman as Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickcock. Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you!
  • Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
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