How to Use boot camp in a Sentence

boot camp

noun
  • On the last day of the boot camp, Chan reviewed some of the attendees dating profiles.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • Some may have a four-year degree in computer science, while others may have learned their data skills at a boot camp.
    Ally Marotti, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2018
  • Their guests don’t want Pilates classes or sunrise boot camps to pre-empt the indulgences that make vacations worth waiting for.
    Margot Dougherty, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Fleckenstein says last year the boot camp drew applications from women as far away as Great Britain and Hawaii.
    USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • In an historic first for the U.S. Marine Corps, women will be able to train alongside men during boot camp.
    Samantha Leach, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2019
  • The Perfect Room evolved from design boot camps Kathryn hosted during the recession, helping people hone their sense of style.
    Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2019
  • The experience was a boot camp — punishing but character-strengthening.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The youngest Beckham child also wondered why her mother was the only Spice Girl in the boot camp sequence wearing a dress instead of army fatigues.
    Lily Rose, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Trends like virtual/online training, boutique fitness studios, boot camp, and mixed martial arts were all included in the survey this year, but none of them ranked in the top 20.
    Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Brittany Aroha, 27, of Ironton, Ohio, has been a drill instructor for the female boot camp battalion for two and a half years.
    Lolita C. Baldor, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • The standardized test won’t be tailored to the curriculum of General Assembly’s data science boot camp, Luke said.
    Ally Marotti, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2018
  • 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
  • Evans was the first of two recruits to die during boot camp this year.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • After boot camp, dogs will test the boundaries at home.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 June 2019
  • 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 top 20 chefs compete in a culinary boot camp and face the first Mystery Box Challenge of the season.
    Ed Stockly, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • Opening up shorter avenues that are free or less expensive than for-profit boot camps can help.
    Olivia Sanchez, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024

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