prison camp

Example Sentences

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His father fought in World War II and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp, after which he returned to Malaya and later settled in the south of England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

This is a prison camp that does not house sex offenders, nor those with the 20-year sentence Maxwell has.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025

He was captured in 2003 and is being held in Guantanamo Bay, the US prison camp in Cuba.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

Later on, some people accused Blake of turning to communism for opportunistic reasons, as a way out of the prison camp.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau