boom town
noun
a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.
boomtown
-
a variation of
boom town.
Example Sentences
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The biggest standout is Celina, Texas, a boomtown on the metro area’s far northern fringes that features master-planned communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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
Yet, the city also has a growing and diversifying population set to top Denver’s by 2050, is home to a liberal arts college and has marketed itself as an outdoorsy boomtown.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
Entrepreneurs, immigrants, and entertainers had turned the rural village of Rochester into America’s first boomtown city.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
