closed-down
Example Sentences
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He began his political career as a mayor in Western Pennsylvania steel country, with closed-down steel mills and boarded-up Main Streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
It started leafleting Llantwit Major in February, soon after Vale of Glamorgan Council announced that temporary houses for refugees were going to be built on the site of a closed-down primary school.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2023
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Robert Habeck will attend the event, a briefing on where the new chip factory will be built - on the site of a closed-down coal plant.
From Reuters • Feb. 1, 2023
The city is using two closed-down schools and its civic center to house migrants in the coming days, when temperatures are expected to dip to dangerous levels.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Waiting at the Pelican crossing by the closed-down beautician's she asked me if I'd had a good day and I said, “Okay.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
