How to Use labor camp in a Sentence

labor camp

noun
  • But then the guy, he would be moved to a more severe labor camp.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • In one, she was sent to a labor camp after giving birth.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • He was sent to a labor camp for six months, Park later heard.
    — Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 9 Oct. 2017
  • At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.
    — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • His father, Mirko, a maitre d’hotel, was sent to a labor camp and died there.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
  • His father, Mirko, a maitre d’hotel, was sent to a labor camp and died there.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Nazi soldiers came to take away Julius Siegel to a labor camp.
    — Ethan Sacks, NBC News, 13 July 2024
  • These were the same labor camps that minor criminals were sent to.
    — Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Petrook's father was forced into a labor camp, but escaped.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • HIs father was sent to a labor camp and his mother to Siberia.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2019
  • His mother was sent to a labor camp, and young Jimmy was left to care for his siblings.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2026
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That such a labor camp could exist today told Morales how fast the gains of three decades can be undone.
    — Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But he was raised in a labor camp and thus has firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing his workers.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • For minor crimes the sentence was time in a labor camp, where offenders slept outside on the ground.
    — Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
  • They were caught by the Russian army and sent to separate labor camps in Siberia.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Gregg was captured and sent to a labor camp near Dresden, Germany.
    — National Geographic, 6 May 2020
  • Whelan was convicted in a closed-door court hearing and sentenced to 16 years in a labor camp.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
  • Whelan was convicted in a closed-door court hearing and sentenced to 16 years in a labor camp.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2022
  • Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.
    — Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Montañez was the son of a Mexican immigrant and grew up in a migrant labor camp.
    — CNN, 26 July 2024
  • The judge overseeing Trevor Reed's case still sentenced him to nine years in Russia's labor camp.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
  • By the end of the 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union’s time zones.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • As Jews, Turgel and her family were rounded up by the Nazis and sent to the Płaszów labor camp.
    — Andrea Diaz, CNN, 11 June 2018
  • In 1944, the Nazis sent him and Adolfas to a labor camp in Germany.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The State Department announces that Bae has been moved from a hospital to a labor camp.
    — CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The two married in 1996, in a ceremony at the labor camp attended by half a dozen friends.
    — Josh Chin, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • But in 1943, Schindler managed to move them to a nearby compound, the Brünnlitz labor camp.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In June, a judge ruled that Fogel would serve 14 years in a labor camp, under charges of large-scale drug trafficking.
    — Anisha Kohli, Time, 10 Dec. 2022

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