How to Use boomtown in a Sentence

boomtown

noun
  • Look, the farmer has erected a wild west boomtown out of plywood.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Its quick growth and ample top earned it fame as the dusty pueblo turned into a boomtown.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • Alas, though, Howard’s mid-century boomtown was nowhere to be seen.
    — Beverly Gage, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Stores wore boomtown facades to tempt passing drivers and their dollars to linger.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • The job growth helped turn the city into a millennial boomtown.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 10 June 2022
  • Once a coal boomtown, Thomas reinvented itself through the arts.
    — West Virginia Tourism Office, AFAR Media, 9 May 2025
  • 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
  • San Francisco is such a boomtown that people are leaving in droves.
    — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Fieldwood raised wages for contractors last month to keep them from moving to Texas boomtowns.
    — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city, has many hallmarks of a boomtown.
    — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • As with many Western boomtowns of the era, gold was the driving force behind Garnet's growth.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The top boomtown on the list was Fulshear, Texas, which grew by 736%.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This silver boomtown-turned-skier’s-paradise has serious charm.
    — Julia Heffelfinger, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 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
  • The college junior spent the summer looking for work in boomtowns of southern China.
    — Jennifer Lin, Philly.com, 22 May 2017
  • 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
  • Buyers could range from people wanting a place to spend the weekends to developers looking for the next boomtown.
    — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Not to mention, some of these same Florida and Texas boomtowns are awash in a glut of condos, which means even more supply.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Walmart, a company ruled by a zeal for low prices, opened a procurement center in the boomtown of Shenzhen.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Paramount+ says the drama is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Realidade, a town first settled in the 1970s, has become a logging boomtown in the past five years.
    — Smithsonian, 17 Dec. 2019
  • With all that activity, small-time Helsinki took off, becoming a boomtown in support of the grand strategic fort.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
  • Reid was born into poverty in Searchlight, the once-bustling gold boomtown 45 miles south of Henderson.
    — James Dehaven, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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