Definition of ghost town
: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource
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Examples of ghost town in a Sentence
After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
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Privacy - Terms Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:00 / 1:38 Own this entire ghost town south of Yosemite for under $1 million Advertisement Cerro Gordo, an old mining town, was recently put on the market for $925,000.
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Local activists and a doctor described the surrounding areas as ghost towns.
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Hulks of rusty fishing boats now dot the dry lake bed between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and fishing villages became ghost towns.
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By the early 20th century, Cerro Gordo had transformed into a desolate ghost town.
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Travelers will begin in the old mining camp and ghost town of Rhyolite, skirt the edges of the Badwater Basin and hike to a hidden waterfall and swimming hole.
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For a glimpse of where Lavasa may be heading, look to Aamby Valley, another affluent township outside Mumbai turned ghost town built by a separate developer.
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Many of China’s other ghost towns have yet to figure out how to jumpstart their economies without slipping back into the old pattern of borrowing and building.
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By the early 1990s, Convention Hall, that had been the site of memorable concerts, and much of the east side resembled a ghost town.
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First Known Use of ghost town
1931
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: a town that no longer has any people living in it : an abandoned town
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