tank town
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I’ll go to the bottom of this thing, even if it means a trip for me to that God-forsaken tank town.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
