How to Use company town in a Sentence

company town

noun

• The company town as such is mostly a thing of the past.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 May 2021
• This would represent the very essence of a company town.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
• And, for many people, that life is lived in fear — of expulsion from the company town.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 May 2021
• Cobalt, a company town that sprouted up a few miles east of the mine, was at one point home to 1,500 residents.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022
• Berns and Sisolak have insisted the project would not be a company town.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
• Those with the means and connections are fleeing to company towns.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• For much of its history, North Adams was a one company town, whether that was a major mill or Sprague.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Sudbury was a company town.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
• The arrangement can seem like a throwback to the company town of an earlier era.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• By building out a company town of his own, Musk could take that approach even further.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• Up sprouted Harbel, the company town named after the founder and his wife, Idabelle.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• To put it mildly, Plymouth Valley is a company town on steroids.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• Not everyone is thrilled to be living in the country’s largest company town.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
• The Yankees are still so often covered like the company in a company town.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
• The company town of Hershey, Penn., was established in 1903.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
• The company town of old was typically formed to attract workers to new job sites.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
• Is this the exciting city of the future or an urban company town run by a data giant?
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 24 June 2019
• And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• Today, eighty years later, the mill and the company town have been wiped almost entirely off of Sparrows Point.
  — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
• Fifty years ago, not far from a shady picnic spot filled with old friends, there was a quarry with a company town and a whole bunch of young boys without much to do in the summertime.
  — Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2017
• Today, 80 years later, the mill and the company town have been wiped almost entirely off of Sparrows Point.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2021
• The former company town was hit hard by the end of the industrial boom, followed decades later by the housing crisis.
  — Mary Hall, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2022
• In Culiacán, the cartel runs what amounts to a shadow government in a company town.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• The two began to talk about a show based on a company town decaying around its primary employer—the prison.
  — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• The earliest story, of a 1902 murder, takes place in what was then the city of Treadwell, the company town located at the Treadwell Mine in present-day Douglas.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
• The American West is littered with company towns that became ghost towns.
  — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
• By the start of the twentieth century, some eighty per cent of West Virginia’s coal miners lived in company towns where the coal companies owned their homes.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
• Staging it in the company town where the company runs America allows Fillinger’s scathing zingers to land with more zing.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• But Alcatraz was really like a small company town where the main industry was a prison.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024