ghost town
noun
: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource
Examples of ghost town in a Sentence
After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
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San Francisco’s downtown, which heavily relied on the city’s buzzing tech industry, became a ghost town during the pandemic.
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Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Finally, nowhere is as steeped in romance as Dunton Hot Springs, a 19th-century ghost town deep in the Colorado Rockies that delivers the most fantastical mountain adventure, with sleigh-riding, snow-shoeing and plenty of cotton-wool cocooning.
—Delilah Khomo, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
Family-friendly fun with pedal cars, corn maze, mini golf, playsets, petting farm, ghost town village, trolley, disc golf, corn crib, foot golf, giant skee-ball and more.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024
Get up close and personal with furry Arctic beasts at the valley’s Musk Ox Farm and learn about the lives of frontier-era gold miners and their families at Independence ghost town.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Finally, nowhere is as steeped in romance as Dunton Hot Springs, a 19th-century ghost town deep in the Colorado Rockies that delivers the most fantastical mountain adventure, with sleigh-riding, snow-shoeing and plenty of cotton-wool cocooning.
—Delilah Khomo, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
Family-friendly fun with pedal cars, corn maze, mini golf, playsets, petting farm, ghost town village, trolley, disc golf, corn crib, foot golf, giant skee-ball and more.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024
Get up close and personal with furry Arctic beasts at the valley’s Musk Ox Farm and learn about the lives of frontier-era gold miners and their families at Independence ghost town.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Ghost town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20town. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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