How to Use encampment in a Sentence

encampment

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  • The rooms were large, and his friends from the encampment were close by.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Across the road was an encampment of tents and lean-tos along a chain-link fence.
    — CBS News, 6 July 2024
  • 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
  • In the early hours of May 30, police cleared the encampment.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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 suspects in the attack were believed to be teens who were not homeless and did not live at the encampment.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • In the last year, a homeless encampment called Camp Hope in the city of Spokane swelled to become the largest in the state, with hundreds of people staying there.
    — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Last year at this time, Phoenix was in the process of clearing the encampment of people and tents block by block to comply with a court order.
    — The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • But in El Cajon, for instance, there was a large encampment.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • From her vantage point, Mckenzie should have been able to see her encampment.
    — Gale Hollandstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
  • In the last year, public works teams have responded to 3,200 encampments in Long Beach, according to the memo.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 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
  • The encampment was supposed to be cleared in April, but the cleanup was recently moved up by several weeks.
    — Christine Queally, Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Water beat dirt into mud and mud into rivulets that curled and swelled around encampments.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Then, in late September, flames from an encampment fire leaped into the church parking lot and destroyed the vehicles of four of his parishioners.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
  • In all three races, critics who cited smash-and-grab robberies, open drug dealing at homeless encampments and other unlawful trends, said the leaders were too soft on crime.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024

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