How to Use boot camp in a Sentence

boot camp

noun
  • You get drilled in that in boot camp.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
  • Did anyone drop out of boot camp?
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • So the Jays ran the righty through a big-league boot camp.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • The behind-the-scenes of these shows are kind of like a boot camp.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2022
  • There are four more three-week boot camps planned for 2026.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Wilson worked to close the boot camp and others like it.
    — Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • The only good thing about this boot camp was no horse riding.
    — Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Evans was the first of two recruits to die during boot camp this year.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • There's a two-week medical boot camp.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Is there a virtual option for the boot camp?
    — Talia Buford, ProPublica, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The boot camp, said the 22-year-old from Tacony, was a chance to get a union job.
    — Lini S. Kadaba, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The last day of our boot camp was the day before Day 1 of shooting.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Guns, youth boot camp and pregnancy, in readers' eyes.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And the trauma began right off the bat at the boot camp, where Leach was first housed.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Nov. 2025
  • What happened to me was somewhere between a god moment and a boot camp.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • This boot camp will be held in person and will not have a virtual option.
    — Talia Buford, ProPublica, 2 Mar. 2026
  • After a tough boot camp, your joints may need a jolt to disengage and relax.
    — Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The rare glimpse of this secretive boot camp came from Biles herself.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The boot camp helped more than 100 writers learn the ins and outs of running a project.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In 1923, the Navy opened its own boot camp next door to the depot.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
  • All came to be challenged − something Chan says the boot camp delivers on.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • Cameron realizes that the boot camp is just beginning, and they will now be involved in the war.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
    — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Usually the final day of boot camp is most difficult.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Intuit runs a multi-week onboarding boot camp to get them up to speed and address those gaps.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But after the rest of the lineup was set, the entire cast underwent a three-week hockey boot camp.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2026
  • On the last day of the boot camp, Chan reviewed some of the attendees dating profiles.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • His father, Thomas, died just before the young man shipped off to boot camp in 2005.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021

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