How to Use boomtown in a Sentence

boomtown

noun
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  • Krishna had moved to the boomtown for work 12 years prior.
    — Ben Weissenbach, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021
  • In the 1960s, this Florida coast line was a boomtown thriving on the race to the moon.
    — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Its quick growth and ample top earned it fame as the dusty pueblo turned into a boomtown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • His father worked in the oil fields, and Jim spent much of his childhood in Iraan, a boomtown in southwest Texas.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • The structures are a relic of a past era of prosperity for the small boomtown.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Not long after that, San Francisco went from a boomtown to a big city.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • Long before the Crispr-Cas9 breakthrough, however, the Bay Area was a biotech boomtown.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
  • Richard Sorge was born in 1895 to a well-to-do German family living in the Russian oil boomtown of Baku.
    — Andrew Ervin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The job growth helped turn the city into a millennial boomtown.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 10 June 2022
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city, has many hallmarks of a boomtown.
    — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Their world is one of extremes, of boomtowns and massacres, of the wonder of railroads and the telephone, but the threat of death is a constant companion.
    — Chanelle Benz, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Realidade, a town first settled in the 1970s, has become a logging boomtown in the past five years.
    — Smithsonian, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Stores wore boomtown facades to tempt passing drivers and their dollars to linger.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • His hot and dry corner of Utah, which includes the city of St. George, has been another boomtown stressed by a shortage of water.
    — Joshua Partlow, Brady Dennis and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • Fieldwood raised wages for contractors last month to keep them from moving to Texas boomtowns.
    — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • There are few people—and none of the armies of migrant workers that typified the Chinese boomtown factories of the 2000s.
    — Time, 29 Sep. 2022
  • His neighborhood, on the edge of what was once a prosperous oil boomtown, had long been running out of basics like corn flour and bread.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2016
  • Reid was born into poverty in Searchlight, the once-bustling gold boomtown 45 miles south of Henderson.
    — James Dehaven, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The college junior spent the summer looking for work in boomtowns of southern China.
    — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
  • San Francisco is such a boomtown that people are leaving in droves.
    — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Just a couple years after the price of oil briefly fell below $0, dusty, sweltering Midland, Texas, is a boomtown again.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Details: When the mines of southwest Colorado closed in the 1970s, some boomtowns—like Telluride—were able to reinvent themselves as ski resorts.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Founded in 1854, in its heyday Oysterville was a little boomtown, and the county seat.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Fort McMurray, like many boomtowns, is a transient place.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • Kit homes, designed to be efficient to build, aided boomtowns like Portland in the early 1900s.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
  • His office is in the boomtown of Kolwezi, where concrete walls topped with razor wire bisect the huge tawny steppes of mining waste towering over the city.
    — Arlette Bashizi, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • Buyers could range from people wanting a place to spend the weekends to developers looking for the next boomtown.
    — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The metropolitan area competing for the tightest labor market in the nation isn’t a tech hub on the West Coast, or a boomtown in Texas.
    — Bryan Mena, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2021
  • That was before Victory Park came to be and when Uptown was more of an aspiration than a boomtown.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The most important thing to know about Anchorage in 1920 is that much of the energy and hope of the original Anchorage boomtown were long gone.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2020

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