How to Use caravan in a Sentence

caravan

1 of 2 noun
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  • As the saying goes, the dogs barked and the caravan moved on.
    — John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The caravan made it to the top of a hill near the exit for Woodbridge, Virginia.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2022
  • From there, the caravan headed north to Fairbanks and on to North Pole for a car show and meet-and-greet.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • The caravan came to the end of the road, at another clearing with more markers.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The garbage produced each year in the US and Canada could fill a caravan of trucks long enough to circle the equator twelve times.
    — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
  • In any event, almost none of the people in the caravan were admitted.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There will also be a restaurant and a hotel built out of 70-year-old caravans.
    — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2023
  • Merchants and pilgrims made their way to the Middle East and Mediterranean world via its caravan routes and docks.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Hey, Hoynsie: Will the Guardians ever bring back the winter bus caravan?
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The closure sent caravans of tourists heading south on Highway 1 to safer places further down the coast.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Hundreds of North Texas fans came out to hear Mosley and a trio of coaches speak during a coaches’ caravan.
    — Brett Vito, Dallas News, 23 June 2023
  • Wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, van der Sloot was briskly escorted to the waiting caravan.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 June 2023
  • The caravan expands to just over 7 inches in width and has a more compact 4.5 inches in width when folded close.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The last option before tarps and tents is this caravan of rolling homes, filing into safe harbor for the night.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Passing a caravan of left-lane dawdlers on the interstate?
    — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2022
  • As part of the deal, the arrival and departure of ships will be conducted in the form of a caravan accompanied by a lead ship.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Father and son would travel around the country in a circus caravan.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The caravan set out Sunday from the city of Tapachula and had walked about 45 miles through the heat to Escuintla in southern Chiapas state.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2023
  • About the bridge that further shrinks the travel time for weekenders from Hanoi and caravans of coaches from China and beyond?
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Even with only 155 horses, the little ‘vert gamely kept up with the modern SLs in our caravan.
    — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The caravan, the first of the year, set off days before Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro takes office.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The animal denizens of the wood live in various snug dwellings: Fox sleeps in a caravan, Hedgehog has an A-frame, Rabbit’s house has an arched roof.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The caravan made its way to a village called Mykolaivka, about seven kilometers from the front line.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The song’s still charging, rumbling, but orderly, so that each word in this speeding caravan now has its own bunk.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Most of those in the caravan are poor and hoping for better opportunities in the United States.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • The footage shows Kraven stopping a caravan of poachers and quickly killing the six of them, including by biting one man and spitting out part of his skin to the camera.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
  • After a month, Claudia, Joseph, and Michal’s caravan made it to Tijuana.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
  • The latest defendants join at least four others already charged who drove to Kenosha from the Twin Cities in a caravan, according to court records.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Across the field on Jennings’ right, McCaffrey leaked out behind a caravan of blockers.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
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caravan

2 of 2 verb
  • We caravaned to the campsite.
  • As the bus turned off the highway onto the A Road, the truck caravan split off.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Last week, Kohn joined a car caravan protest with about two dozen of his peers.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The bus-caravan victory lap could become the NFL version of the bat flip.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • An hour later, Parker and crew caravan a few blocks east, to the corner of 23rd and Eighth, to take a few pictures on the street.
    — Vogue, 7 Nov. 2021
  • By the film's end, the ants caravan the confetti--a very human remain--down into holes in the earth.
    — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Last weekend, as a pro-Trump car caravan clashed with counterprotesters in the city, a Trump supporter was shot and killed on the street.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The crew on the engine that crashed was planning to meet up and caravan back to San Diego Wednesday when the accident occurred around 8:30 a.m.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Four police squads caravan through and meet the neighbor nearby.
    — Monica Nilsson, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
  • If the Chiefs win, their postgame bus caravan out of the stadium will get heavy media coverage.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Every person in the Central Arkansas caravan will wear an N95 mask while on the bus, Teague said.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The club meets once a month most months to caravan and show off their cars around town, or for weekend car shows or social gatherings during the week.
    — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • Danielson, 38, a supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, was gunned down after a pro-Trump car caravan wound through the city.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Thursday, when Sensabaugh and others caught up to them in their car caravan and began their walking shift.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2020
  • One man was shot and killed Saturday in Portland where a pro-Trump car caravan clashed with counterprotesters.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Tennessee’s bus caravan to the stadium was engulfed by the crowd.
    — Mike Strange, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In politics the media caravan moves swiftly on, and a vicious battle for the succession is now the big news story.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In politics, the media caravan moves swiftly on, and a vicious battle for the succession is now the big news story.
    — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Mega artist and business mogul, Rihanna has enjoyed moments of stillness and solitude through road trips to nearby deserts in her own Airstream caravan with close friends.
    — Taylor Stoddard, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In Manhattan’s Chinatown, a bike caravan in a similar vein is planned for the end of September.
    — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Police tried to keep the truck caravan on the interstate rather than let vehicles exit onto the Morrison Bridge.
    — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Shortly after Biden spoke, Trump launched his defense of Rittenhouse and described the Portland caravan as a peaceful protest.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The next day, the family caravaned to Mendoza’s grandparents’ farm in rural San Vicente.
    — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
  • The union is organizing a car caravan for Sunday to demand changes to the daily schedule, which is separate from the formal agreement.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
  • According to Helix officials, the employees will caravan in three trucks, two from Helix and one from Padre Dam.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2019
  • One man was fatally in Portland on Saturday night as a pro-Trump car caravan clashed with counterprotesters.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Maryland's Terps on Tour coaches caravan will kick off tonight at the Baltimore Aquarium.
    — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
  • The collection will also be available at Hot Holiday caravan pop-up shops.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 18 July 2022
  • The bus caravan carrying San Diego State turned left Saturday morning.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Demonstrators and protestors were then planning to caravan 25 miles north to Murfreesboro for a second rally.
    — Stephanie Ingersoll, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017

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