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
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
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
On the solidified, stabilized surfaces of Pluto and Charon the Cadre would erect a tank town dome.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Moldeven, Meyer
