How to Use ghost town in a Sentence

ghost town

noun
Definition of ghost townnext
  • After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
  • The road near the Agua Caliente ghost town is lined with dead mesquite trees.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The island was a ghost town, like a scene from a movie.
    — Time, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The heat has made pockets of the desert city feel like ghost towns.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • The offices at 1 Spurs Lane were a bit of a ghost town last week.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2022
  • Overnight, the city turned into a ghost town, Mr. Mayes said.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Lately, though, the whole area looks more like a ghost town.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The rest of the hospital was shut down, so the I.C.U. floor was the chaotic heart of a ghost town.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The Longhorns return to a campus that will feel like a ghost town.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • At the turn of the 20th century, Central was a ghost town.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • If there was any doubt about whether the area should be called a ghost town, it was settled by the 1980s.
    — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The place felt like a ghost town a day after Christmas.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The park was named for this ghost town, a hub of gold rush fever a century ago.
    — Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2022
  • The last mine shut down in 1954, though, and almost overnight Madrid became a ghost town.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The small town of Aguas Calientes, the closest to Machu Picchu, is also a ghost town.
    — Franklin Briceno, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
  • On the east coast of the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus is a ghost town trapped in time.
    — Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Even if things stay the same, UCSD will sort of resemble a ghost town.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • For a couple of months, Ann Arbor felt like a ghost town to Kwity Paye.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2020
  • The Pontiac show is on the second floor of a venue called The Crofoot in the heart of what feels like a ghost town.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022
  • Many villages near the border on both sides are ghost towns.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • While the park sat as a ghost town, the equipment that wasn’t auctioned off wandered off.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In time, the place passed from being a ghost town to a heap of grassy stones: a symbol of loss, nothing more.
    — Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • New York City is not, has never been, and never will be a ghost town.
    — Patrick Vaill, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2020
  • There’s no better way to get in the Halloween spirit than with a ghost tour in a ghost town.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The world of movies, more than any time in recent memory, is a ghost town.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The interior of the old airport now looks like a ghost town.
    — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • This is a big reason archery hunters will be on elk one day and find their honey hole to be a ghost town the next.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Outside of the handful of players who live in the area, JetBlue Park will be a ghost town for a while longer.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Off-road trails crisscross the San Juans, taking you to historic mining towns and old ghost towns.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Regardless of whether the stadium comes to fruition, these projects suggest the city may be moving forward from the ghost town era of the pandemic and reinventing its physical landscape.
    — Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2024

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