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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Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons?
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Christos Makridis, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons?
—Christos Makridis, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
Some of the boomtowns that fueled the dreams of fortune-seekers became dusty ghost towns, according to the Autry Museum of the American West.
—Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Neville requested the bottle’s finder deliver his letter to his mother Robertina Neville at Wilkawatt, now a virtual ghost town in South Australia.
—CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Christos Makridis, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons?
—Christos Makridis, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
Some of the boomtowns that fueled the dreams of fortune-seekers became dusty ghost towns, according to the Autry Museum of the American West.
—Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Neville requested the bottle’s finder deliver his letter to his mother Robertina Neville at Wilkawatt, now a virtual ghost town in South Australia.
—CNN Money, 30 Oct. 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 2 Dec. 2025.
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