How to Use ghost town in a Sentence

ghost town

noun

• After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
• Even so, the website compiling that research is a bit of a ghost town.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
• Then the virus turned New York’s theater district into a ghost town.
  — Kaly Soto, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• The ocean-front city of Avalon, whose picturesque beauty has sold millions of postcards over the years, has been turned into a ghost town.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2020
• Seoul hasn’t been subject to the kind of general lockdown that has turned other global capitals into ghost towns.
  — Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
• The whole month of July is basically a ghost town in Finnish corporate offices.
  — Jade Ventoniemi, Contributor, CNBC, 27 July 2024
• Partly, that’s because the White House is a ghost town of scientific expertise.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2020
• After all, what used to seem to you a vibrant, garrulous hangout space, or at least a reasonable simulation of one, has become a ghost town.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020
• As one of the few countries with a declining population, and amidst a modern era of urbanization, many of these hamlets have become ghost towns.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• The closures have turned places like Skeldon in the fertile east of the country into ghost towns, wiping out the once vibrant local markets and businesses that used to serve the sugar workers.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 7 Apr. 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
• 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 oceanfront city of Avalon, whose picturesque beauty has sold millions of postcards, has been turned into a ghost town, the Associated Press reports.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 26 Apr. 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 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024