encampment

Example Sentences

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For years, residents in one South L.A. neighborhood have reported a freeway-close tent encampment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Three days after that exchange, a man named Gregory Antone had been at the Quirky encampment, left, and returned.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The CHP had planned to set up a solidarity encampment outside the courthouse.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

The group of Chagossians and Holloway hope their encampment will scuttle the agreement once and for all before the British Parliament rubber stamps it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Finally I came to the line of trees that ran along the ridge at the top of the encampment.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier