How to Use pitch a/the tent in a Sentence

pitch a/the tent

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  • For those who like to pitch a tent, primitive sites are available.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2021
  • When the weather was nice, the two women would pitch a tent and sleep outdoors.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The walk-in closet in the main bedroom is large enough to pitch a tent between the clothes racks.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Turn around here, or pitch a tent and turn the journey into an overnight backpacking trek.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 18 July 2024
  • In recent months, some had built crude camps to serve the migrants, charging them to pitch a tent or buy food.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Choose to sleep in one of the 12 wooden shelters along the trail, or pitch a tent the old-fashioned way.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That would alienate even more people who can’t afford to pay $50 a night to pitch a tent on public lands.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Autumn in Northeast Ohio remains the ideal time to pitch a tent.
    — cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Texas offers great beaches, lovable small towns, and lots of great outdoor spaces in which to pitch a tent under the stars.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2023
  • Look for shells and sea snails, get hypnotized by the powerful Atlantic waves, or pitch a tent right on the sand.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Starting from Buckhorn Campground (which is a great spot to pitch a tent among the trees), the path parallels a quaint stream.
    — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • These are a relatively new tent design and can be challenging to set up correctly, let alone find the perfect place to pitch the tent.
    — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But for the majority of campers—those who go car camping or pitch a tent on ground with facilities nearby—some luxuries of home are nice to have.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2022
  • Visitors can pull up and stay in their own RV, or when seasonally appropriate, pitch a tent.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Mayor Erin Mendenhall is against creating a permanent place to camp RVs or to pitch a tent.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The week before, my brother and I had to pitch a tent in the back yard for sleeping because our bedrooms had been turned into staging areas for the caterer.
    — Lian Dolan, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Visitors can stay the night in lakeside cabins or pitch a tent in the campground or a canoe campsite, which is only accessible by water.
    — Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The compound will have 36 lodging units between its cabins, cottages and tipis, and for the more outdoorsy, 32 campsites where guests can pitch a tent.
    — Chris Burton, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2021
  • They were not allowed to pitch a tent with the other Mormons near the old Mexican plaza in the hamlet of Yerba Buena.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
  • For many travelers, camping is one of those experiences that sounds better in theory, but when the cover of night comes, not everyone wants to pitch a tent, stoke a fire, and be on bear watch.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2022
  • For sunset seekers, dark sky aficionados, and early risers, though, there’s no better place to pitch a tent (and avoid those afternoon mobs) than tucked among the brilliant rock formations inside the park.
    — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There are plenty of places to pitch a tent or park an RV in Wisconsin, from kid-friendly campgrounds with inflatable obstacle courses to remote campsites far from signs of civilization.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • Camping is prohibited in Moab, so the agency encourages people to pitch a tent on Bureau of Land Management property rather than within city limits.
    — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021

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