How to Use tent city in a Sentence

tent city

noun
  • In less than an hour, the tent city was swept away and the lawn area cleaned.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • The menacing tent cities and the over-the-top drug use on city streets are gone.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • People at the tent city agreed Sam had the knives for self-defense.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The grassy area across from Geisel Library where the tent city once sat was cordoned off.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • The increase can be seen around the city as more tent cities pop up, Shaw Thompson said.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Where should the former tent city residents go after their hotel stay is up?
    — Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ramirez has been at hotel since the city last month shut down tent city and started efforts to level and clear the site.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Some have found homes far away; others are living in tent cities and containers nearby.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of migrants were evicted from a tent city in Denver.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The tent city where Sam lived wasn’t just outside the perimeter of the convention.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Despite the tent city’s removal, the area still functions as an open-air drug marketplace.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The same goes for the European Union, which could build tent cities for temporary refuge.
    — Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024
  • In a tent city near Gaza’s border with Egypt, desperation is running high.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Migrants and activists have turned a stretch of the adjoining street into a hybrid tent city, protest site and memorial.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Many tribal elders see the tent city on the sacred pow-wow grounds as an affront and the harm reduction team’s efforts as enabling.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The temporary tent city includes an indoor mini-golf green, arcade games and pinball machines.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 8 July 2025
  • Last year, city workers fenced off another old tent city site by the Dan Ryan Expressway.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Police patrols pass through the tent city by Beirut’s coast where Shuman and his family are staying.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Some nights, that can mean as many as four random checks that force occupants of the tent city to wake up and produce their student IDs.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Johnson’s remarks barely registered in the tent city, where students sat in circles painting posters and chanting.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • To power the generators and light the tent city, the site uses up to 12,000 gallons of diesel.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
  • To accommodate the tens of thousands of holy men, pilgrims and tourists, authorities have built a sprawling tent city on the riverbanks.
    — Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The first batch of migrants was bused to a makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday and took one look and were ready to leave, according to reports.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • More than 1 million people have squeezed in and around the southern city of Rafah, joining swelling tent cities near the Egyptian border.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The worst off are in tent cities, many of them informal, erected on sidewalks or empty blocks, the skeletons of standing buildings casting shadows around them.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The next day, Shafik, the university president, authorized New York police to swoop in and break up the tent city.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • For the third time in six weeks, a fire in Elgin’s tent city destroyed makeshift structures that are part of the homeless encampment along the Fox River.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see.
    — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Riz Ahmed stars as Hamlet in a retelling that moves from elite London to the city’s underground, from Hindu temples to homeless tent cities.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The government did not allow the miners to own land on the goldfields, or to vote, so the town was a tent city of the disenfranchised, marked by noise, mine shafts and flags marking different enclaves.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023

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