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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Pripyat — previous population 50,000 — was left a ghost town.
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Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Venture out on off-road adventures to nearby ghost towns and mining camps including the Burro Schmidt Tunnel, a .5-mile tunnel hand-dug through solid granite.
—Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
Without its central industry, it’s become a ghost town, and one where the era of Harmony and her old friend (played by character actor James LeGros) working as child laborers(*) for Lumon comparatively feel like the good old days.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
Their equipment had been fully operational, but now the site resembled a ghost town, with all the machinery and materials abandoned.
—Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Venture out on off-road adventures to nearby ghost towns and mining camps including the Burro Schmidt Tunnel, a .5-mile tunnel hand-dug through solid granite.
—Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
Without its central industry, it’s become a ghost town, and one where the era of Harmony and her old friend (played by character actor James LeGros) working as child laborers(*) for Lumon comparatively feel like the good old days.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
Their equipment had been fully operational, but now the site resembled a ghost town, with all the machinery and materials abandoned.
—Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ghost town
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“Ghost town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20town. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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