How to Use ghost town in a Sentence

ghost town

noun

• After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
• The heat has made pockets of the desert city feel like ghost towns.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• The offices at 1 Spurs Lane were a bit of a ghost town last week.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2022
• The rest of the hospital was shut down, so the I.C.U. floor was the chaotic heart of a ghost town.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• At the turn of the 20th century, Central was a ghost town.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• If there was any doubt about whether the area should be called a ghost town, it was settled by the 1980s.
  — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
• The park was named for this ghost town, a hub of gold rush fever a century ago.
  — Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2022
• The last mine shut down in 1954, though, and almost overnight Madrid became a ghost town.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
• The small town of Aguas Calientes, the closest to Machu Picchu, is also a ghost town.
  — Franklin Briceno, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
• The Pontiac show is on the second floor of a venue called The Crofoot in the heart of what feels like a ghost town.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022
• While the park sat as a ghost town, the equipment that wasn’t auctioned off wandered off.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• In time, the place passed from being a ghost town to a heap of grassy stones: a symbol of loss, nothing more.
  — Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• New York City is not, has never been, and never will be a ghost town.
  — Patrick Vaill, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2020
• There’s no better way to get in the Halloween spirit than with a ghost tour in a ghost town.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• The world of movies, more than any time in recent memory, is a ghost town.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2020
• The interior of the old airport now looks like a ghost town.
  — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• This is a big reason archery hunters will be on elk one day and find their honey hole to be a ghost town the next.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• The military blocked traffic in and out of Jenin, and the city resembled a ghost town.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Long abandoned, the ghost town is now home to Brent Underwood.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2021
• By late Friday, the Cow Palace was becoming a ghost town.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 9 July 2024
• The campus is a ghost town as the murders remain unsolved.
  — Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022
• The street has gone from ghost town to the site of major Black Lives Matter protests to the current rebound, which is one of the strongest in the city.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 5 June 2021
• Instead of swarms of people, downtown felt more like a ghost town.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2021
• Ruins of adobe homes are scattered around the village’s old Catholic church, giving parts of Ledoux the feel of a ghost town.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• But Tamarindo never feels like a ghost town, which is a testament to the friendliness of the staff.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
• The drought in Utah has brought the ghost town back after years underwater.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• The Capitol became a ghost town, with staffers -- like so many thought the country -- working from home.
  — Kendra Barkoff Lamy and Doug Heye, CNN, 29 July 2021
• There's dune hiking, a lighthouse, a wagon tour to view a shipwreck and even a ghost town.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 1 June 2022
• The most interesting was the most amazing box present at the ghost town of Sandon, BC.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Though around 450 people live here now, Jerome's ghost town days aren't over — some say this is one of Arizona's most haunted destinations.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024