How to Use work camp in a Sentence

work camp

noun
  • She later was moved to a work camp, and then to Bergen-Belsen.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2022
  • This journey takes him to the archives to find out more about Cuban work camps.
    — Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2019
  • And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
    — Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The 50-second clip zoomed in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Kennan had come to write a defense of the sprawling network of work camps and prisons.
    — W. M. Akers, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The other would be to plead guilty to one count of felony hazing and 60 days in a county jail work camp.
    — Joe Reedy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Loung Ung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, but survived to tell her story.
    — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 21 Jan. 2016
  • At its peak, the prison held 3,000 inmates in 30 work camps across the island.
    — Maya Duclay, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Debora was facing a three-year sentence in a juvenile work camp.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • When reporters finally got to the shattered work camps, the nation was outraged.
    — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Just one mile north of Philip, a TC Energy work camp lies empty.
    — Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
  • His family was forced into a work camp, and for four years, Eang lived on the brink of death, losing two of his siblings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
  • A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.
    — Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
  • Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The show also released a 50-second teaser trailer, zooming in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
    — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2020
  • By the end of the year, waste-sorting operations were transferred to Janowska, a work camp that later became a death camp.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
  • At the railroad work camp, Fuqua shows Peter and the other slaves forced to walk in chains, stored in wooden pens and served food not fit for human consumption.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Kenneth Bae, a missionary from Washington state who spent two years in prison, said he was kept for the most part in a foreigners-only work camp.
    — Eric Talmadge, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Even if convicted, McGrath was unlikely to face much prison time and likely would have served his sentence at a federal work camp.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • The other influx care facility, a former work camp in Pecos, Texas, has not housed children since earlier this year.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 27 June 2023
  • Unlike Samantha, Irina never received a response and her father was sent to a Siberian work camp.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
  • He was sentenced last July to 30 months in prison for which he's expected to report to a federal prison work camp in Oregon.
    — Lauren Del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • To house all those workers, the company plans to build temporary 600-bed work camps in remote areas using modular housing units.
    — Bobby Magill, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2013
  • My father and a handful of his fellow yeshiva boys and their teacher arrived at the Soviet-run work camp in the summer of 1941.
    — Avi Shafran, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Established in 1930, the ranch once was a work camp for the construction of the Stewart Mountain Dam.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021

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