How to Use work camp in a Sentence

work camp

noun
  • She later was moved to a work camp, and then to Bergen-Belsen.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2022
  • This journey takes him to the archives to find out more about Cuban work camps.
    Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The 50-second clip zoomed in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The other would be to plead guilty to one count of felony hazing and 60 days in a county jail work camp.
    Joe Reedy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The prison is a work camp that runs multiple inmate crews.
    oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Kennan had come to write a defense of the sprawling network of work camps and prisons.
    W. M. Akers, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Established in 1930, the ranch once was a work camp for the construction of the Stewart Mountain Dam.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Just one mile north of Philip, a TC Energy work camp lies empty.
    Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Loung Ung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, but survived to tell her story.
    Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 21 Jan. 2016
  • His family was forced into a work camp, and for four years, Eang lived on the brink of death, losing two of his siblings.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
  • When reporters finally got to the shattered work camps, the nation was outraged.
    National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • At the railroad work camp, Fuqua shows Peter and the other slaves forced to walk in chains, stored in wooden pens and served food not fit for human consumption.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • By the time my father arrived, the family’s story—the flight, the work camps, the loss of a first son to Red Army conscription—was all part of a past not often spoken of.
    Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • By the end of the year, waste-sorting operations were transferred to Janowska, a work camp that later became a death camp.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The show also released a 50-second teaser trailer, zooming in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2020
  • My father and a handful of his fellow yeshiva boys and their teacher arrived at the Soviet-run work camp in the summer of 1941.
    Avi Shafran, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • He was sentenced last July to 30 months in prison for which he's expected to report to a federal prison work camp in Oregon.
    Lauren Del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Kenneth Bae, a missionary from Washington state who spent two years in prison, said he was kept for the most part in a foreigners-only work camp.
    Eric Talmadge, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Debora was facing a three-year sentence in a juvenile work camp.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His staging, on a set by Brett J. Banakis that’s part verdant hillside, part work camp, part podium, is fluid enough to cover many of the logical cracks.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike Samantha, Irina never received a response and her father was sent to a Siberian work camp.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
  • Gilles, who assumes the name Reza, is taken to a work camp that’s also a transit center for prisoners on their way to the Nazi death factories established in Poland.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • Archaeological digs show that Nazis built work camps and death camps on the islands near the northwestern coast of France, but records from the occupation are far-flung.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • The other influx care facility, a former work camp in Pecos, Texas, has not housed children since earlier this year.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 27 June 2023
  • Even if convicted, McGrath was unlikely to face much prison time and likely would have served his sentence at a federal work camp.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Erected in 1935 as a gulag work camp, Norilsk has grown into a nickel mining and smelting center.
    Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Erected in 1935 as a gulag work camp, Norilsk has grown into a nickel mining and smelting center.
    Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2018
  • Goodman is at a prison work camp in Crawfordville, south of Tallahassee, according to the state Department of Corrections.
    Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • To house all those workers, the company plans to build temporary 600-bed work camps in remote areas using modular housing units.
    Bobby Magill, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2013
  • Even's maternal grandparents were killed by Nazis in Budapest but the rest of his family survived, including his parents who were in a Nazi work camp during the war, the Times reported.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2020

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