trailer park

Example Sentences

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Three first-responder nurses during the pandemic live in a hastily planned trailer park near the San Bernardino hospital where all day, every day they confront the comatose and the dying.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

“I grew up in a trailer park in Midland, Texas, and used to force all the neighbor kids to do plays that I guess I directed,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

The city’s previous worst fire, the Sayre fire, destroyed 600 homes, mostly in a densely packed trailer park directly abutting the scrub; the 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed 1,600 homes north of the city.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2025

One of Beth's most memorable lines of dialogues, "You are the trailer park, I am the tornado", is even printed on T-shirts.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024

I had no misgivings about the trailer park in Key West or the motel in Maine, but the trailer’s door had a bolt, and both had effective shades and screens.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich