ghost town

noun

: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource

Examples of ghost town in a Sentence

After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.

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Historic mining towns in Yuma, Jerome and Wickenburg At least three ghost towns in former mining communities are passport stops. —

Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024 Horizon Worlds—Meta’s flagship VR platform—was a virtual ghost town populated by legless virtual avatars. —

Webb Wright, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024 The destination was beset by troubles and Two Guns is now considered a ghost town. —

Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024 Here, the octogenarian killer is the last resident of an orphanage in a ghost town; when a group of millennials sets upon it to turn it into a trendy hot spot, the orphanage’s owner dies and Leatherface goes bananas. —

Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ghost town