tank town
Example Sentences
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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
Without air conditioning, explains a new Texan, Houston would have remained a torpid tank town, and never made it to the status of a big city.
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
Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the solidified, stabilized surfaces of Pluto and Charon the Cadre would erect a tank town dome.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Moldeven, Meyer
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