boomtown

boom·town | \ ˈbüm-ˌtau̇n

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Definition of boomtown

: a town enjoying a business and population boom

Examples of boomtown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This was before Cambridge, Mass., became a tech boomtown, home to a 300,000-square-foot Google satellite office complete with decorative canoes and a miniature indoor putting green. — New York Times, "The Treasured Diners and Hidden Haunts That Covid-19 Closed for Good," 27 Dec. 2020 Now, 12 miles from the NAFTA boomtown of Torreón, the land was dotted with tiny bone fragments. — Washington Post, "The search for the disappeared points to Mexico’s darkest secrets," 3 Dec. 2020 The most important thing to know about Anchorage in 1920 is that much of the energy and hope of the original Anchorage boomtown were long gone. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, "Mud, fires and bootlegging: What daily life looked like in the early years of Anchorage," 9 Nov. 2020 After San Francisco emerged as a gold rush boomtown in the mid-1800s, the U.S. government began work on an island fortress to protect the nearly $2 billion in gold flowing freely through the Bay Area (modern equivalent: roughly $62 billion). — Jordan Kushins, National Geographic, "Alcatraz’s gardens are flourishing, against all odds," 5 Nov. 2020 The commission says 5,700 foreign companies would draw on power created by the Renaissance Dam, many of them in a burgeoning industrial corridor that stretches from Addis Ababa to the boomtown of Adama, the site of Alemu’s factory. — Washington Post, "Africa’s largest dam powers dreams of prosperity in Ethiopia — and fears of hunger in Egypt," 15 Oct. 2020 But Merims in 1954 and Dawson’s brief stint as a boomtown were separated by more than 50 years. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, "Here’s how Anchorage’s Mountain View, Fairview and Government Hill neighborhoods were named," 23 Aug. 2020 Port Tobacco, Maryland, once a boomtown, faded after its wharfs silted up. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, "A secret hidden in centuries-old mud revealed a new way to save polluted rivers," 18 Aug. 2020 With a population over 200,000, Gotham was a grotesquely magical boomtown. — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Horace Greeley Turned Newspapers Legitimate and Saved the Media From Itself," 6 Mar. 2020

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“Boomtown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boomtown. Accessed 18 Jan. 2021.

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