ghost town
a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out.
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How to use ghost town in a sentence
It’s a fascinating look at how ghost towns aren’t just dusty relics but can in fact teach us a thing or two about what a vibrant community could be in the 21st century.
Downtown centers became ghost towns, and revenue dropped sharply for coworking spaces as clients ditched short-term leases.
The sudden absence of these workplace cues presents a challenge for anyone whose office stands like a veritable ghost town due to Covid-19.
How to recreate the workplace chatter of knowledge in a pandemic | Rajashree R | February 4, 2021 | QuartzVisiting the Smithsonian during the pandemic can feel like passing through a ghost town.
You have until Nov. 22 to visit these six Smithsonian museums. Here’s what to expect. | Kelsey Ables | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostThe pandemic has turned the world’s financial capitals into ghost towns as nervous workers avoid mass commuting.
New Yorkers and Londoners are fleeing to the suburbs, and that’s spurring a rally in these stocks | Bernhard Warner | November 3, 2020 | Fortune
As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town.
Jihadi Siege in Sydney Ends in Gunfight | Courtney Subramanian, Lennox Samuels, Chris Allbritton | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sun will set in less than an hour and a hubbub will emerge from the ghost-town houses and farms.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the Ukrainian army, slowly, uncertainly, but ineluctably, is closing in on this besieged ghost-town of a city.
By the afternoon it was a ghost town inside the campus gates.
It's a ghost town now, just a handful of weathered wooden buildings sagging beneath snow.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the map, the ghost town was in a valley next to a dry lake bed.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinA ghost town should have ghosts but none walk at the present time.
The Pinos Altos Story | Dorothy WatsonShe said no more about it just then, as they had reached the old ghost town of Gleeson.
The Phantom Town Mystery | Carol NortonThe tall, well-built cowboy star swung into his saddle and they trotted away between two tumbledown houses of the ghost town.
Janet Hardy in Hollywood | Ruthe S. WheelerThe trail led toward the hills back of the ghost town and it was evident that the man they were trailing had rested frequently.
Janet Hardy in Hollywood | Ruthe S. Wheeler
British Dictionary definitions for ghost town
a deserted town, esp one in the western US that was formerly a boom town
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for ghost town
A town, especially a boomtown in the old American West, that has been completely abandoned and deserted: “If you drive through the desert, you can still see the main street of Dry Gulch, a ghost town.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Other Idioms and Phrases with ghost town
A once thriving town that has been completely abandoned, as in Many of the old mining communities are ghost towns now. This idiom implies that there are no living people left in town. [First half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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