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
They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company.
From Time Magazine Archive
She waited by the window, looking out upon without seeing the few rude buildings that composed a tank town at which the train had made a halt for water.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
