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
  • But Mary lacked a job and slept in a tent encampment in a park.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Homeless encampments soon sprang up around the site.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Two people have died in the encampment next to my building this month.
    — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Rumors swirled in the wake of the fire that a homeless encampment was the source.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The city has yet to announce other sites for its mass encampments.
    — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
  • How does that cost compare to fighting a fire from the encampments?
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The victims were not in or near homeless encampments but were on the streets alone.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The goal is to stop encampment fires that could grow into wildfires.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Most were cited and released, and the encampment popped back up the next day.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There had been a major squatter encampment across the street.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • A couple years ago, the city’s largest homeless encampment was right across the street.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The city was sued over clearing homeless encampments last year.
    — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The encampment itself was not closed.
    — Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Soon, the encampment mushroomed into one of the state’s largest.
    — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Then the city sends out a sanitation crew to clear out any trace of the encampment.
    — Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • No one from the encampment was seen at the site while the fire was being extinguished.
    — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2024
  • But Venice Beach is just one encampment in a city and county full of them.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2021
  • By the end of the month, residents of the encampment were packing up.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • Staff was asked to bring back an item on the enforcement of encampment clearings.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Those who knew him at the encampment described him as quiet and friendly.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Two people staying at the encampment were pronounced dead on the scene.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The campus was one of dozens around the country where students set up encampments as part of their protests.
    — Elissa Robinson, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • Phoenix plans to clear one block of the encampment roughly every three weeks, Hall said.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • The largest encampment in the city, Columbus Park, is swept.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Residents in the area have raised concerns over encampments and fires.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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