tank town
Example Sentences
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Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.
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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.
