Example sentences for: klondike

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In the old Klondike boomtowns, people find a whiff of romance from the great gold rush of 1897.

  • A year later, gold was struck in the Klondike, opening up the Yukon to 100,000 panhandlers and camp followers.


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