How to Use company town in a Sentence
company town
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The company town as such is mostly a thing of the past.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 May 2021
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This would represent the very essence of a company town.
—Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
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And, for many people, that life is lived in fear — of expulsion from the company town.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 May 2021
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Cobalt, a company town that sprouted up a few miles east of the mine, was at one point home to 1,500 residents.
—Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022
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Berns and Sisolak have insisted the project would not be a company town.
—Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
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Those with the means and connections are fleeing to company towns.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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For much of its history, North Adams was a one company town, whether that was a major mill or Sprague.
—Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Sudbury was a company town.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
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The arrangement can seem like a throwback to the company town of an earlier era.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
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By building out a company town of his own, Musk could take that approach even further.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
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Up sprouted Harbel, the company town named after the founder and his wife, Idabelle.
—Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
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Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
—Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
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To put it mildly, Plymouth Valley is a company town on steroids.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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Not everyone is thrilled to be living in the country’s largest company town.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
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The Yankees are still so often covered like the company in a company town.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
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The company town of Hershey, Penn., was established in 1903.
—Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
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The company town of old was typically formed to attract workers to new job sites.
—Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
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Is this the exciting city of the future or an urban company town run by a data giant?
—Matt McFarland, CNN, 24 June 2019
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And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
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Today, eighty years later, the mill and the company town have been wiped almost entirely off of Sparrows Point.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
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Fifty years ago, not far from a shady picnic spot filled with old friends, there was a quarry with a company town and a whole bunch of young boys without much to do in the summertime.
—Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2017
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Today, 80 years later, the mill and the company town have been wiped almost entirely off of Sparrows Point.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2021
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The former company town was hit hard by the end of the industrial boom, followed decades later by the housing crisis.
—Mary Hall, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2022
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In Culiacán, the cartel runs what amounts to a shadow government in a company town.
—Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
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The two began to talk about a show based on a company town decaying around its primary employer—the prison.
—Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
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The earliest story, of a 1902 murder, takes place in what was then the city of Treadwell, the company town located at the Treadwell Mine in present-day Douglas.
—Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
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The American West is littered with company towns that became ghost towns.
—Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
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By the start of the twentieth century, some eighty per cent of West Virginia’s coal miners lived in company towns where the coal companies owned their homes.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
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Staging it in the company town where the company runs America allows Fillinger’s scathing zingers to land with more zing.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
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But Alcatraz was really like a small company town where the main industry was a prison.
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022
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