How to Use encampment in a Sentence

encampment

noun

• 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
• No one from the encampment was seen at the site while the fire was being extinguished.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2024
• 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 encampment across the street, a few people sat in a lawn chairs, watching the press conference over the roar of passing trucks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• 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 veterans, at their encampment in Concord, voted to defy the order and to bivouac on the Battle Green the next night.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022
• One social media user said the encampment had been in the area for at least a year with no action taken to clean it up.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 29 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Homeless adults might live in encampments, like at the park-and-ride-lots or near resources like Guest House of Milwaukee.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024