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单词 ghost town
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Definition of ghost town in English:

ghost town

noun
  • A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.

    被废弃的城镇

    it's like a ghost town at weekends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's Christmas Eve and the little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, resembles a ghost town.
    • Local artists have been drafted in to transform the bottom end of the city which is fast becoming a ghost town as shops shut down.
    • Wake up Bolton Council and listen to the town's inhabitants before the town centre becomes a ghost town.
    • Those workers losing their livelihoods turned that town into a ghost town.
    • If something isn't done soon, more shops will close, Kendal town centre will die and the place will become a ghost town.
    • But the city, which has been pretty much a ghost town for the last couple of days, is beginning to fill up.
    • My neighborhood was a ghost town, with papers and loose garbage rolling along the empty street.
    • The city centre has been a ghost town and all the talk by local traders is of a ‘dead week’ where many shut up shop early in the face of empty tills.
    • The church has only one service a week, on a Wednesday not a Sunday, which sounds odd until you realise that most of the City is a ghost town at the weekend.
    • Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut.
    • One couple living in the cul-de-sac said it was normally like a ghost town at the weekends, that many of the houses were rented and most people cleared off home.
    • The school has closed and finally the long popular hotel was closed and the village seemed destined to become a ghost town.
    • This area has really gone down, it is like a ghost town.
    • After this period, outsiders ventured into the village anticipating nothing but a ghost town.
    • As the trucks and buses rolled out, the village took on the appearance of a ghost town, with only a few stray dogs roaming the empty streets.
    • During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest.
    • If parking charges did deter shoppers from town centres, then Manchester city centre would be a ghost town.
    • Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
    • Our town is turning into a ghost town and people are still fighting over power.
    • The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town.

Definition of ghost town in US English:

ghost town

nounˈɡōs(t) ˌtounˈɡoʊs(t) ˌtaʊn
  • A deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.

    被废弃的城镇

    it's like a ghost town at weekends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The city centre has been a ghost town and all the talk by local traders is of a ‘dead week’ where many shut up shop early in the face of empty tills.
    • As the trucks and buses rolled out, the village took on the appearance of a ghost town, with only a few stray dogs roaming the empty streets.
    • If something isn't done soon, more shops will close, Kendal town centre will die and the place will become a ghost town.
    • Our town is turning into a ghost town and people are still fighting over power.
    • During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest.
    • My neighborhood was a ghost town, with papers and loose garbage rolling along the empty street.
    • Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut.
    • If parking charges did deter shoppers from town centres, then Manchester city centre would be a ghost town.
    • The church has only one service a week, on a Wednesday not a Sunday, which sounds odd until you realise that most of the City is a ghost town at the weekend.
    • After this period, outsiders ventured into the village anticipating nothing but a ghost town.
    • The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town.
    • But the city, which has been pretty much a ghost town for the last couple of days, is beginning to fill up.
    • One couple living in the cul-de-sac said it was normally like a ghost town at the weekends, that many of the houses were rented and most people cleared off home.
    • Those workers losing their livelihoods turned that town into a ghost town.
    • Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town.
    • This area has really gone down, it is like a ghost town.
    • It's Christmas Eve and the little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Christ, resembles a ghost town.
    • Local artists have been drafted in to transform the bottom end of the city which is fast becoming a ghost town as shops shut down.
    • The school has closed and finally the long popular hotel was closed and the village seemed destined to become a ghost town.
    • Wake up Bolton Council and listen to the town's inhabitants before the town centre becomes a ghost town.
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