boomtown
- a variation of boom town.
Example Sentences
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The hottest housing market in America isn’t a Sunbelt boomtown or a fast-growing Midwestern capital, such as Columbus, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Austin was a boomtown during the pandemic, with home prices surging over that period.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
L.A. was a tumbleweed boomtown whose population had doubled in one decade and quintupled in the next, morphing from village to metropolis in a generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
It’s around 1919 and Ernest is wearing his World War I uniform when he dismounts a train in Fairfax, an Oklahoma boomtown where luxury cars rumble down dirt roads.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
But what was a war boomtown without the war?
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
