abandoned town
Example Sentences
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The abandoned town had been surprisingly busy — although half dead, with alder trees clawing at its foundations, it brimmed with the irrepressible energy of borderland dreamers, con men and escape artists.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
When the mines closed in the 1930s, almost everyone left and the abandoned town changed hands several times.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2020
His father-in-law’s family, the Hills, bought the abandoned town in 1935, and he and his wife, Gina, moved here from Ohio, just last year.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
Today, Islamic State militants remain within striking range of Palmyra, though Syrian and Russian soldiers protect the ruins along with the mostly abandoned town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
The whole garden became a thick underbrush, like an abandoned town, through which one could scarcely walk without slashing a path with a machete.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
