ghost town

The pandemic has turned the world’s financial capitals into ghost towns as nervous workers avoid mass commuting.

As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town.

The sun will set in less than an hour and a hubbub will emerge from the ghost-town houses and farms.

And 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.

According to the map, the ghost town was in a valley next to a dry lake bed.

A ghost town should have ghosts but none walk at the present time.

She said no more about it just then, as they had reached the old ghost town of Gleeson.

The tall, well-built cowboy star swung into his saddle and they trotted away between two tumbledown houses of the ghost town.

The trail led toward the hills back of the ghost town and it was evident that the man they were trailing had rested frequently.