How To Use Ghost town In A Sentence
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Exploring old mines and ghost towns.
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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We're going to have people with six-guns and so forth, sombreros, wandering through there as the local guides through ‘Ghost Town.’
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Some 90 minutes earlier, downtown Port-of-Spain was like a ghost town, allowing traffic to flow smoothly, as everyone was glued to televisions and radios.
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The area resembles a series of ghost towns.
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Released in 1981, as riots raged on Britain's streets, Ghost Town was one of the most searingly eloquent protest songs ever written.
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Whole sections of the city are ‘ghost towns’ with newly completed buildings standing empty.
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Many settlements turned into ghost towns, as the land could no longer sustain life.
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The Rockies are home to several campgrounds, ghost towns, gold prospecting sites, and national parks.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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Otherwise the Gaza streets are completely empty ghost town.
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Trip includes air charter from Anchorage and three nights at a scenic mountain lodge located in Alaska's largest mining ghost town.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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Shopping centres across Britain resemble ghost towns.
The Sun
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About the origin of the story, Kugel writes that it "looks like an etiological narrative, that is, the recounting of some incident from the distant past that serves to explain the way things are 'now,' at the time of the story's composition, when Sodom was a ghost town.
John R. Coats: Were Sodom and Gomorrah Really Torched for Homosexuality?
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We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.
The Sun
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I think WoW's a hot virus -- it'll burn fast and two years from now WoW may be a ghost town *may* be.
The future of VWs over a quarter
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: John, well, you guys have used the term ghost town.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
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It looked like a ghost town; it was beautiful.
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
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Benguela, in the south, is one of Kapuscinski's ghost towns.
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The mine was worked on and off again until 1955, and then Mowry became a ghost town.
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But the mercados that once bustled with Americans and their dollars are ghost towns.
La Frontera
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In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago.
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The South Koreans call North Korea's border settlement Gijeon, "propaganda village," because they say it's a ghost town whose only function is to broadcast blasts of sloganeering through ultrapowerful loudspeakers.
War Tour
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in ‘Ghost Town’ would consume as much space as the Web site itself.
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I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town.
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I wandered through the old medina, now a ghost town of cool, meandering lanes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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They can become ghost towns with the metaphorical tumbleweed bouncing past the shuttered restaurants.
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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The army has used its newly acquired firepower to flatten houses and other buildings, destroy coconut plantations and turn the city into a virtual ghost town.
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It is now a ghost town with only a few cottages still occupied, but there are interesting historic walks, a thirty bunk lodge, and plenty of space for tent camping.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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It felt like a ghost town and the roll of an empty barrel against the railings on the wall in front served as the tumbleweed.
THE MANANA MAN
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They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
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The town was bypassed by the M4 at the end of the 1960s but fears of it becoming a ghost town were groundless and the tourist and retail centre is busier today than it was in pre-M4 days.
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This whole place has become like a ghost town.
The Sun
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A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
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Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
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To us --- to me anyway --- for the time we moseyed the dusty streets of Ghost Town, Marshall Wild Windy Bill McKay was as real a lawman as Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickcock.
Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you!
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Macau has the feeling of a ghost town or something out of a twilight zone episode.
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But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town,(Sentencedict) deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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Worker dormitory suburbs already resemble ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times
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The City, by contrast, is bustling with besuited business people during the week yet is almost a ghost town at weekends, when most shops and many bars and restaurants close due to lack of trade.
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Since that time many of these names have changed their spelling whereas others have become ghost towns or disappeared from the maps altogether.
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I think WoW's a hot virus -- it'll burn fast and two years from now WoW may be a ghost town *may* be
The future of VWs over a quarter
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Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left.
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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Some villages have become ghost towns.
Christianity Today
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There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
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I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
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It stops communities from becoming dysfunctional ghost towns, it keeps people off the street or from living in their cars, it is good for the banks to generate some cash flow rather than sit on an empty house for who knows how long, and finally it allows the house to retain more value than if it was left empty, unmaintained and potentially squatted in or vandalized.
Archive 2009-02-08
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There was a fear of ghost town neighbourhoods.
Times, Sunday Times
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We think it's going to make Darlington a ghost town.
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And for weeks after the catastrophes, the sprawling mall and concourses inside Pittsburgh International Airport resembled a ghost town.
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Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
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Sumner became a ghost town; his parish failed.
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A small town near Niagara Falls becomes a ghost town after industrial sludge from a leaking dump renders the area toxic.
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Once a mining center, Goldfield is now a crumbling carcass, a living ghost town of 300 people.
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He led them through the encampment of blue tents; it was like walking through a ghost town.
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It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
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Already by early March, Verdun had become a ghost town.
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The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets.
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As an alternative to "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo, try: "Ghost Town" by The Specials, another '80s-era favorite, but with an eerier, ska vibe.
Five tracks for your Halloween playlist
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The airport was like a ghost town, the terminal was empty and eerily silent.
