tank town
Example Sentences
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Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom.
From Time Magazine Archive
She waited by the window, looking out upon without seeing the few rude buildings that composed a tank town at which the train had made a halt for water.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
