How to Use boomtown in a Sentence

boomtown

noun

• Krishna had moved to the boomtown for work 12 years prior.
  — Ben Weissenbach, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021
• In the 1960s, this Florida coast line was a boomtown thriving on the race to the moon.
  — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• Its quick growth and ample top earned it fame as the dusty pueblo turned into a boomtown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• His father worked in the oil fields, and Jim spent much of his childhood in Iraan, a boomtown in southwest Texas.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• The structures are a relic of a past era of prosperity for the small boomtown.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
• Paramount+ says the drama is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• Not long after that, San Francisco went from a boomtown to a big city.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• Long before the Crispr-Cas9 breakthrough, however, the Bay Area was a biotech boomtown.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
• Richard Sorge was born in 1895 to a well-to-do German family living in the Russian oil boomtown of Baku.
  — Andrew Ervin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• The job growth helped turn the city into a millennial boomtown.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city, has many hallmarks of a boomtown.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• Their world is one of extremes, of boomtowns and massacres, of the wonder of railroads and the telephone, but the threat of death is a constant companion.
  — Chanelle Benz, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Realidade, a town first settled in the 1970s, has become a logging boomtown in the past five years.
  — Smithsonian, 17 Dec. 2019
• Stores wore boomtown facades to tempt passing drivers and their dollars to linger.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• His hot and dry corner of Utah, which includes the city of St. George, has been another boomtown stressed by a shortage of water.
  — Joshua Partlow, Brady Dennis and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• Fieldwood raised wages for contractors last month to keep them from moving to Texas boomtowns.
  — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• There are few people—and none of the armies of migrant workers that typified the Chinese boomtown factories of the 2000s.
  — Time, 29 Sep. 2022
• His neighborhood, on the edge of what was once a prosperous oil boomtown, had long been running out of basics like corn flour and bread.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2016
• Reid was born into poverty in Searchlight, the once-bustling gold boomtown 45 miles south of Henderson.
  — James Dehaven, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
• The college junior spent the summer looking for work in boomtowns of southern China.
  — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
• San Francisco is such a boomtown that people are leaving in droves.
  — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Just a couple years after the price of oil briefly fell below $0, dusty, sweltering Midland, Texas, is a boomtown again.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Details: When the mines of southwest Colorado closed in the 1970s, some boomtowns—like Telluride—were able to reinvent themselves as ski resorts.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• Walmart, a company ruled by a zeal for low prices, opened a procurement center in the boomtown of Shenzhen.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Founded in 1854, in its heyday Oysterville was a little boomtown, and the county seat.
  — Brian J. Cantwell, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Fort McMurray, like many boomtowns, is a transient place.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Kit homes, designed to be efficient to build, aided boomtowns like Portland in the early 1900s.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
• His office is in the boomtown of Kolwezi, where concrete walls topped with razor wire bisect the huge tawny steppes of mining waste towering over the city.
  — Arlette Bashizi, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• Buyers could range from people wanting a place to spend the weekends to developers looking for the next boomtown.
  — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022
• But that’s not accounting for pandemic boomtowns, such as Austin, which has seen its home prices fall considerably from their peak.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024