boom town
Example Sentences
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Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace.
From Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles used to be a boom town for scoring musicians, with enough first-call players to fill three symphonic orchestras.
From Los Angeles Times
A: You can go back to the early 1900′s, when every time a new boom town was founded, the supply just overwhelmed the market so prices collapsed.
From Washington Times
“We were the original oil boom town in the ‘20s and it’s a cool way of saying something is changing,” said Jacob Johnson, the creator of the websites and a Tulsa-based digital marketing executive.
From Reuters
The boom town on the Cambodian coast has a deep water port and is part of China’s Belt and Road initiative.
From Reuters
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