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
Another long-overdue contender is British thespian Bill Nighy as a closed-down executive making the most of his last months in ‘Ikiru’ remake ‘Living.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022
On the other side was a closed-down gas station, a tattered billboard for a 1990s movie, and one open business, which was the source of the neon light and the good smell.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
