tank town
Example Sentences
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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
Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.
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
I’ll go to the bottom of this thing, even if it means a trip for me to that God-forsaken tank town.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
