Sentence examples for lost town from inspiring English sources

Think local "Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town," wrote Raymond Chandler in 1942's The High Window.

At a lengthy meeting before a standing-room-only crowd at the Riverhead Town Hall tonight, people spoke out for and (mostly) against the concert, raising fears of drunken driving, the possibility of lost town revenues and worries of terrorist attacks.

He retook the previously lost town of Voden (Edessa) and laid siege to the massive fortress of Maglen, situated to the north-west.

Not only the location was compatible with their computer model, but also their initial findings were supported by the additional discovery of a three-four meters deep ditch around the lost town, as well as the remnants of a military watch tower.

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Rather, these lost towns are what remain of communities where thousands of people lived and toiled in the 18th and 19th centuries, producing tile, bricks, glass, lumber, paper, iron and munitions.

"It's even more significant that the PS has lost towns where the mayors were well appreciated, where their record was good and where they had the advantage of being in power already.

"This was not some bucolic Walden Pond — this was heavy industry," said Budd Wilson, a former state archaeologist who over the last 48 years has excavated many of the sites of these lost towns.

IS has lost towns in both Iraq and Syria, but though under strain it has proved resilient: in May it pushed the Iraqi army out of the town of Ramadi, the long-contested capital of Anbar province, and evicted the Syrian army from the oasis town of Palmyra.

The English lost towns including Poitiers and Bergerac and their dominance at sea was reversed by defeat at the Battle of La Rochelle, undermining English seaborne trade and allowing Gascony to be threatened.

The army continued to lose towns in the south to the SPLA, but it managed to hold the three provincial capitals of Malakal, Wau, and Juba.