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Definition of ghost town in English: ghost townnoun A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants. 被废弃的城镇 it's like a ghost town at weekends Example sentencesExamples - It's Christmas Eve and the little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, resembles a ghost town.
- Local artists have been drafted in to transform the bottom end of the city which is fast becoming a ghost town as shops shut down.
- Wake up Bolton Council and listen to the town's inhabitants before the town centre becomes a ghost town.
- Those workers losing their livelihoods turned that town into a ghost town.
- If something isn't done soon, more shops will close, Kendal town centre will die and the place will become a ghost town.
- But the city, which has been pretty much a ghost town for the last couple of days, is beginning to fill up.
- My neighborhood was a ghost town, with papers and loose garbage rolling along the empty street.
- The city centre has been a ghost town and all the talk by local traders is of a ‘dead week’ where many shut up shop early in the face of empty tills.
- The church has only one service a week, on a Wednesday not a Sunday, which sounds odd until you realise that most of the City is a ghost town at the weekend.
- Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut.
- One couple living in the cul-de-sac said it was normally like a ghost town at the weekends, that many of the houses were rented and most people cleared off home.
- The school has closed and finally the long popular hotel was closed and the village seemed destined to become a ghost town.
- This area has really gone down, it is like a ghost town.
- After this period, outsiders ventured into the village anticipating nothing but a ghost town.
- As the trucks and buses rolled out, the village took on the appearance of a ghost town, with only a few stray dogs roaming the empty streets.
- During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest.
- If parking charges did deter shoppers from town centres, then Manchester city centre would be a ghost town.
- Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
- Our town is turning into a ghost town and people are still fighting over power.
- The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town.
Definition of ghost town in US English: ghost townnounˈɡōs(t) ˌtounˈɡoʊs(t) ˌtaʊn A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants. 被废弃的城镇 it's like a ghost town at weekends Example sentencesExamples - The city centre has been a ghost town and all the talk by local traders is of a ‘dead week’ where many shut up shop early in the face of empty tills.
- As the trucks and buses rolled out, the village took on the appearance of a ghost town, with only a few stray dogs roaming the empty streets.
- If something isn't done soon, more shops will close, Kendal town centre will die and the place will become a ghost town.
- Our town is turning into a ghost town and people are still fighting over power.
- During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest.
- My neighborhood was a ghost town, with papers and loose garbage rolling along the empty street.
- Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut.
- If parking charges did deter shoppers from town centres, then Manchester city centre would be a ghost town.
- The church has only one service a week, on a Wednesday not a Sunday, which sounds odd until you realise that most of the City is a ghost town at the weekend.
- After this period, outsiders ventured into the village anticipating nothing but a ghost town.
- The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town.
- But the city, which has been pretty much a ghost town for the last couple of days, is beginning to fill up.
- One couple living in the cul-de-sac said it was normally like a ghost town at the weekends, that many of the houses were rented and most people cleared off home.
- Those workers losing their livelihoods turned that town into a ghost town.
- Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
- This area has really gone down, it is like a ghost town.
- It's Christmas Eve and the little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, resembles a ghost town.
- Local artists have been drafted in to transform the bottom end of the city which is fast becoming a ghost town as shops shut down.
- The school has closed and finally the long popular hotel was closed and the village seemed destined to become a ghost town.
- Wake up Bolton Council and listen to the town's inhabitants before the town centre becomes a ghost town.
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