How to Use camp in a Sentence

camp

1 of 2 noun
  • He was worn out from that camp.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Try to scare it out of the camp?
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Sturm was hurt on the first day of camp.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And here’s why that tragedy plays as high camp.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Tuchel is now in the fourth of those six camps.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The first camp starts on June 8.
    — Samantha Laurey, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But by this stage, morale in the camp was through the floor.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Now this is the final week of camp.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • All morning the team worked the camp.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The camp consists of two parts.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The camp was simply crossed off the map.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But there are two very distinct camps.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • On top of all that, Minten had a good camp.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The week ahead offers tests to both camps.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Collins has looked good in camp workouts.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Who will be in camp for spring training?
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Tiki decor runs a gamut from high to low camp.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And turned his steps back toward the camp.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • See you again when training camps open.
    — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • First comes the railroad; then, a camp.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And the Rangers don’t have a guy like that in camp.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Life in the camp for the displaced was scary and hard.
    — Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For three months, he was moved between refugee camps.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The four base camps will be split between the states.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Training camp’s not fun, right?
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This sounds, on the surface, very high camp meets wuh?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Sánchez was in big league camp with the Yanks this past spring.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 7 June 2026
  • Barry was one of the first with paws on the ground at camp.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Moses is now 34 and showed signs of rust and age in camp.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025

camp

2 of 2 verb
  • The two men camped next door stepped in.
    — Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The press was camped out every day.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Those who camped out and resold got the margin.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • The church stands near the site where the French army camped.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Several of us were camped with a guide and his helper.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Visitors would camp in tents on the beach.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • This was not the weekend to go camping.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Head to the mountain your pals are skiing and camp out in a great spot.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Many camped out overnight for tickets, waiting in lines that wrapped around the block.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 20 Dec. 2025
  • For those shows, people will camp out a week before the concert.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Jenna Milliner-Waddell, Curbed, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Many who lost homes and businesses in the blazes are camping on the beach.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • No more than 50 hikers per day are allowed to camp overnight.
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • One man has been arrested for camping a dozen times.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Television camera crews, camped out for days, passed the time in lawn chairs.
    — Shayna Jacobs, David Nakamura, Hannah Allam, Isaac Arnsdorf, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • Thousands of people are homeless, many camped out on streets.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Most attendees camp on site for the weekend.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Many of those troops are now camped out in the fields and orchards along the Gaza border.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The lyric talks about having a heart of steel — and in that siege, soldiers were camped out in a steel plant.
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • Images of an Afghan woman camped out with a gray cat went viral.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • One strategy is to bring a lawn chair and pick a stage, camping out in one spot for the whole day.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • People go camping to feel free to be there within nature.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some residents there for months had to camp in tents on the spots where Ian ripped apart their homes.
    — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Raman has also softened on no-camping zones in the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • Pilgrims in Mina will camp there and pray and worship.
    — Mariam Fam, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2026
  • Use it as a throw blanket while camping or spread it out on a truck bed during a tailgate.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Hardkorr adds in a slew of tricks to make both toy loading and base camping a breeze.
    — New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The New Haven police were camped outside my house and stayed there overnight.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • Those include the long lines of fans who bring chairs and tents to camp out in front of the stores ahead of the openings.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Families from all over would drive here to enjoy it, even camping overnight.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • There are also camping trips in state parks and college campus tours.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 June 2026

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