POW camp
Example Sentences
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Now the 25-year-old sits in a Ukrainian POW camp, his optimism replaced by barbed-wire fencing and snow-covered countryside that is unlike anything he grew up with in Senegal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Ukraine has regularly opened its main POW camp to the Red Cross, the United Nations and international journalists.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
The CBS comedy, in which Allied soldiers in a POW camp bested their clownish German army captors with espionage schemes, played the war strictly for laughs during its 1965-71 run.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
It was with some irony that Clary achieved his greatest fame playing for jokes in a TV show set in a German POW camp.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2022
They sent him to the infamous Changi POW camp in Singapore.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
