abandoned town

Example Sentences

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A large red Shia flag flaps in the wind nearby - it is almost the only sound in the largely abandoned town.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

The abandoned town had been surprisingly busy — although half dead, with alder trees clawing at its foundations, it brimmed with the irrepressible energy of borderland dreamers, con men and escape artists.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

When the mines closed in the 1930s, almost everyone left and the abandoned town changed hands several times.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2020

His father-in-law’s family, the Hills, bought the abandoned town in 1935, and he and his wife, Gina, moved here from Ohio, just last year.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

The whole garden became a thick underbrush, like an abandoned town, through which one could scarcely walk without slashing a path with a machete.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende