How to Use ghost town in a Sentence

ghost town

noun

• 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
• Been to small towns, dying towns, dead towns and ghost towns.
  — oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Outside the shelter, the rest of New Smyrna Beach felt like a ghost town.
  — Gabrielle Russon, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Document the action of rock climbers and the stillness of a Wild West-era ghost town.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Arizona is full of ghost towns, ghost stories — ghosts, ghosts, ghosts.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2024
• Off-road trails crisscross the San Juans, taking you to historic mining towns and old ghost towns.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024