Sentence examples for shrinking towns from inspiring English sources

Fewer farmers usually means shrinking towns.

But today it is littered with shuttered factories and shrinking towns.

Rapidly shrinking towns and cities across Japan are experiencing a population explosion.

The people along a string of shrinking towns on the Delaware River are expected to make about 5,900 one-way trips a day on New Jersey Transit's new River Line.

There are hardworking taxpayers boarding up storefronts in shrinking towns that are down to their last stoplight, but the Mayor of Husker Nation, Steve Pederson, recently handed nearly $800,000 to the state employee Frank Solich to make him disappear after a 9-3 season.

More than a century later, neighbors argue at public hearings about the spirit of the law and the future of their shrinking towns.

A shrinking town of old concrete clings to a bridge joining two bare, almost treeless mountains.

From Huntingdon, a shrinking town of about 4,000 residents anchored by the stately Carroll County courthouse on a photogenic square, Nashville is about two hours to the east, and Memphis is two hours to the west.

— This shrinking town in the desert has endured its indignities over the years.

There may be government backstops for bank failures, insurance collapses and pensions owed to workers by bankrupt airlines and steel mills — but not, apparently, for the retirees of a shrinking town.

The reality is that the German population is shrinking and towns like this one are working hard to hide the emptiness.