How To Use Ghost town In A Sentence
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A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
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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
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Since that time many of these names have changed their spelling whereas others have become ghost towns or disappeared from the maps altogether.
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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.
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Worker dormitory suburbs already resemble ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town,(Sentencedict) deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Macau has the feeling of a ghost town or something out of a twilight zone episode.
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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!
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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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Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left.
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days.
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Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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It felt like a ghost town and the roll of an empty barrel against the railings on the wall in front served as the tumbleweed.
THE MANANA MAN
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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It is now a ghost town with only a few cottages still occupied, but there are interesting historic walks, a thirty bunk lodge, and plenty of space for tent camping.
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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The airport was like a ghost town, the terminal was empty and eerily silent.
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As an alternative to "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo, try: "Ghost Town" by The Specials, another '80s-era favorite, but with an eerier, ska vibe.
Five tracks for your Halloween playlist
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The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets.
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Already by early March, Verdun had become a ghost town.
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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He led them through the encampment of blue tents; it was like walking through a ghost town.
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Once a mining center, Goldfield is now a crumbling carcass, a living ghost town of 300 people.
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A small town near Niagara Falls becomes a ghost town after industrial sludge from a leaking dump renders the area toxic.
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Sumner became a ghost town; his parish failed.
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The army has used its newly acquired firepower to flatten houses and other buildings, destroy coconut plantations and turn the city into a virtual ghost town.
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And for weeks after the catastrophes, the sprawling mall and concourses inside Pittsburgh International Airport resembled a ghost town.
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We think it's going to make Darlington a ghost town.
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There was a fear of ghost town neighbourhoods.
Times, Sunday Times
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It stops communities from becoming dysfunctional ghost towns, it keeps people off the street or from living in their cars, it is good for the banks to generate some cash flow rather than sit on an empty house for who knows how long, and finally it allows the house to retain more value than if it was left empty, unmaintained and potentially squatted in or vandalized.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: John, well, you guys have used the term ghost town.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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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
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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About the origin of the story, Kugel writes that it "looks like an etiological narrative, that is, the recounting of some incident from the distant past that serves to explain the way things are 'now,' at the time of the story's composition, when Sodom was a ghost town.
John R. Coats: Were Sodom and Gomorrah Really Torched for Homosexuality?
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Shopping centres across Britain resemble ghost towns.
The Sun
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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Trip includes air charter from Anchorage and three nights at a scenic mountain lodge located in Alaska's largest mining ghost town.
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Otherwise the Gaza streets are completely empty ghost town.
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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The Rockies are home to several campgrounds, ghost towns, gold prospecting sites, and national parks.
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Many settlements turned into ghost towns, as the land could no longer sustain life.
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Whole sections of the city are ‘ghost towns’ with newly completed buildings standing empty.
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Released in 1981, as riots raged on Britain's streets, Ghost Town was one of the most searingly eloquent protest songs ever written.
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The area resembles a series of ghost towns.
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Some 90 minutes earlier, downtown Port-of-Spain was like a ghost town, allowing traffic to flow smoothly, as everyone was glued to televisions and radios.
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We're going to have people with six-guns and so forth, sombreros, wandering through there as the local guides through ‘Ghost Town.’
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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They can become ghost towns with the metaphorical tumbleweed bouncing past the shuttered restaurants.
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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I wandered through the old medina, now a ghost town of cool, meandering lanes.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town.
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
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Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in ‘Ghost Town’ would consume as much space as the Web site itself.
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Exploring old mines and ghost towns.
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The South Koreans call North Korea's border settlement Gijeon, "propaganda village," because they say it's a ghost town whose only function is to broadcast blasts of sloganeering through ultrapowerful loudspeakers.
War Tour
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In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago.
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But the mercados that once bustled with Americans and their dollars are ghost towns.
La Frontera
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The mine was worked on and off again until 1955, and then Mowry became a ghost town.
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Benguela, in the south, is one of Kapuscinski's ghost towns.
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In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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It looked like a ghost town; it was beautiful.
