How to Use boot camp in a Sentence

boot camp

noun
  • Evans was the first of two recruits to die during boot camp this year.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Some employers have turned to short-term job training programs, or boot camps, to train workers for hard-to-fill jobs.
    Mark Maurer, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Why should the most viable path for an idealistic young person consist of coding boot camp and venture funding?
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Find an Outdoor Workout Take your workout outdoors with an outdoor boot camp or yoga class!
    Julie Pennell, Teen Vogue, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Flatiron School in Houston offers software engineer and data science boot camps.
    Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Filmmakers from more than 20 countries will be featured in the festival, which offers industry workshops, parties and a boot camp to refine pitches.
    Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Wellness-minded travelers will also love the hotel’s indoor-outdoor gym that offers top-of-the-line equipment, yoga classes, and fitness boot camps, as well as wet and dry saunas and a cold plunge.
    Outside Online, 29 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, the company is spending $50 million in both London and New York to open studios for yoga, boot camps and cycling.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Perez was in Madison to speak with students at a boot camp for political field organizers before heading to Milwaukee for a discussion on health care.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Classes available include indoor cycling, running, walking, strength, boot camp, meditation, yoga, stretching and cardio.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The behind-the-scenes of these shows are kind of like a boot camp.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In 1923, the Navy opened its own boot camp next door to the depot.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The boot camp helped more than 100 writers learn the ins and outs of running a project.
    Amber Dowling, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the crew are as young as 18 and began this cruise fresh out of boot camp.
    Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Forced to get the shot to see my son graduate boot camp.
    cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Rest easy, zoomers — boot camp has been postponed for now.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • Drafted, Andrews went to boot camp at the then-new Fort Dix.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This caused a further blow to my self-esteem and the start of a sort of reform boot camp.
    Rommy Torrico, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His father, Thomas, died just before the young man shipped off to boot camp in 2005.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The next morning, half the house lays out by the pool while the other half goes through Nelly T's boot camp.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • One is off to compete around the globe, one is taking his trombone to boot camp and one is off to serve the poor.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024
  • Or join a boot camp through the empty and still-closed theme park (think: jumping jacks in the Avengers Campus).
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The last entrepreneurship boot camp was held in Dallas in 2019.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Working with Tom Cruise was its own kind of actor boot camp.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
  • The rare glimpse of this secretive boot camp came from Biles herself.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • So, to take it from boot camp to this moment, now, I’m just filled with gratitude.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hutchings left for Marine boot camp in 2022, the news report said.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • What happened to me was somewhere between a god moment and a boot camp.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • All came to be challenged − something Chan says the boot camp delivers on.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024

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