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Examples of shelter tent in a Sentence
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Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff Two families from Henan province eat food handed out by volunteers by a shelter tent before the Border Patrol picks them up, April 2, 2024, in Jacumba Hot Springs, California.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024
The haul included a generator, dolly, cables and a shelter tent with a replacement value of $20,000.
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Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
Paparazzi followed their every Starbucks sip, thwarted by their massive handbags and cardigans that doubled as shelter tents.
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Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Dec. 2019
San Diego City Council members agreed to continue funding its three large bridge shelter tents for a cost of $11.6 million Tuesday.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2019
Murphy, a domestic abuse survivor who is about eight months pregnant, has been in the shelter tent since January and had gone out with the downtown crews several times.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
Among the items found in his car were digital devices, California and Nevada license plates, a shotgun, ammunition, a first aid kit, bottle rockets, an open bottle of Jack Daniels, and a camouflage pack with a fire shelter tent.
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Chelcey Adami, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2019
Among the other items found in his car were digital devices, California and Nevada license plates, a shotgun, ammunition, a first aid kit and a camouflage pack with a fire shelter tent.
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Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
The city of San Diego’s independent budget analyst concluded funding for three homeless bridge shelter tents and a facility where the homeless can store their belongings is unsustainable, according to KPBS.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
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First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
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“Shelter tent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shelter%20tent. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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