Example sentences for: klondike

How can you use “klondike” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The town grew up as the terminus where prospectors transferred from the Skagway train to the Yukon River steamboats and is now the junction of the Alaska and Klondike highways.

  • Close to the original action and still providing the most vivid testimony to the Klondike days, the boomtown of Dawson City yielded in 1951 to the transportation and communications center of Whitehorse as territorial capital.

  • This is the place to be in the week of August 17, Discovery Day, for the Klondike River raft-races, costumed street-parades, music, and dancing.

  • The Klondike gold rush did more than fire the western world’s imagination with scores of novels, epic poems, and films — it immediately opened up a whole vast territory with such mundane services as railways, roads, telephones, electricity, and hot and cold running water.

  • A day’s drive from Whitehorse along the Klondike Highway, the old boomtown counts scarcely 1,000 inhabitants today, but the national parks system has done a nice tongue-in-cheek job of reconstructing the monuments of its heyday.


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