How to Use concentration camp in a Sentence

concentration camp

noun
  • His teenage years were spent in concentration camps.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This isn’t what happens at any camp but a concentration camp.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2018
  • For millions, trains took them to their deaths at concentration camps.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2018
  • The problem is there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp.
    — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Of course, the problem is there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Of course, the problem is, there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp.
    — Mary Wang, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The pieces may even have been written while the composers were in concentration camps.
    — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Ich was captured, and spent six years in a concentration camp, away from his wife and baby son.
    — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • From there they were sent to the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • To her, a concentration camp is a place where captives live in daily fear of being killed.
    — David Montero, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • The Nazis destroyed much of his work and his wife perished in a concentration camp.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Did the family who lived there slip apples over the concentration camp wall?
    — Sally Susman, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
  • At that concentration camp, over a million men, women and children were killed in the most heinous of ways.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The Nazis used pink triangle badges to brand gay men in concentration camps.
    — Kate Sosin, Them., 31 Oct. 2025
  • Though neither was in a concentration camp, both witnessed the horrors of war.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The family’s next trip was a cattle car to the concentration camp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The sandals were sent to the man’s nine-year-old son, living in a Utah concentration camp.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • That they weren't killed in a concentration camp Asia called a miracle.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
    — Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • Critics of the shelter plan said the staging area for the shelters looked like a concentration camp.
    — al, 23 June 2022
  • Most have buried their concentration camp stories in attics and basements and trash cans and boxes.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • Many of the rest of Jaray’s family members were killed in the concentration camps.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
  • And a 101-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to prison.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
  • Ivy Schamis, the teacher, had dressed the class walls with images of concentration camps and banners.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • Someone forced into the concentration camp or jail had gone away or was put in protective custody.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • They were joined by another large group who had been abandoned in train cars on their way to a concentration camp as the war was winding down.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • After much of the population has been sent to concentration camps, those who remain fight back.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
  • Sasha will escape Vichy France, but her family will still die in the concentration camps.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Henie plays a young woman, caught in a love triangle, whose father has escaped from a concentration camp.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026

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