How to Use encampment in a Sentence

encampment

noun

• Bass is not the first politician to try to get their arms around the encampments near El Pueblo.
  — David Zahniser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• Soon, the encampment mushroomed into one of the state’s largest.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• At first, a sprinkling of rain helped settle some of the dust swirling through the encampment.
  — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• The victims were not in or near homeless encampments but were on the streets alone.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
• An encampment of tents and shelters lined Atkinson Street in the area know as Mass and Cass.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• By the time the fences came down two months later, an encampment had taken hold on Franklin.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Phoenix plans to clear one block of the encampment roughly every three weeks, Hall said.
  — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• The 67-year-old then started to make his way to the farm encampment, where several of the workers lived.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Many from outside the city formed a huge tent encampment just a short distance from the Knesset.
  — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The city has yet to announce other sites for its mass encampments.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
• But life’s troubles had landed him in a homeless encampment where the rats were the size of footballs.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• In April, city contract workers removed the encampments and cleaned the area.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• The city was sued over clearing homeless encampments last year.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Yet, hope is a shared feeling among those living in the Redwood City encampment.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• The first months of enforcement did remake the encampment landscape.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• The problem with encampment sweeps, opponents say, is that the homeless don’t have anywhere else to go.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2024
• The encampment sprawled across a grassy plateau, where Washington arrived at the head of a contingent of weary and ill-equipped soldiers.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Water beat dirt into mud and mud into rivulets that curled and swelled around encampments.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The area has been riddled with crime, prompting mayor Michelle Wu to begin the process of dissolving the tent encampment, a process which will start on Nov. 1.
  — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
• The operation was the first by Inside Safe to target a large RV encampment.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The refugee encampment is at least four hours away from the closest aid outpost in the region, and some parts of the sandy and bumpy tracks used to traverse the area will soon be submerged in the rainy season.
  — Elian Peltier Yagazie Emezi, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• And farther south, more than a dozen people were rescued from a homeless encampment in the San Diego River basin.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
• Over the weekend, a Boston city councilor was mugged while trying to observe the conditions at a tent encampment in the area.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• The mud was so thick and sticky that many abandoned their hiking books, trekking through the encampment barefoot or slipping plastic bags over their socks.
  — Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• No one can deny that some encampments deny the public use of parks their tax dollars built and maintain.
  — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
• Others complained about the encampment, with tarps and trash about, being an eyesore.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The encampment is on Ramsey County property north of the park, Rodriguez said.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2024
• In Calais, France, Darrieussecq witnesses a wakefulness imposed by the state: the forcible eviction of refugees from the encampment known as the Jungle.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2023
• The mayor asked city staff and police what else could be done to prevent the sprawling encampments from returning.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• Today, the clinic was scheduled to make its regular visit to the the Bedouin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024