tank town
Example Sentences
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Without air conditioning, explains a new Texan, Houston would have remained a torpid tank town, and never made it to the status of a big city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life in and around their pelagic tank town is the subject of this eerie, colorful documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a successor to his awesome epic, The Silent World.
From Time Magazine Archive
They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company.
From Time Magazine Archive
And we have been, ever since you boys showed me the brook where I could wash my face back in that tank town where you two lived.
From The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
