How to Use boot camp in a Sentence

boot camp

noun
  • Xavier went from teaching children, adults, striking classes, boot camp classes and fight camps.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • That's because unlike others, this isn't a strict military-style boot camp.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Students developed and pitched venture ideas in a four-day entrepreneurship boot camp.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Weddings four through seven were packed into three months, in what ultimately became a sober-wedding boot camp.
    Sarah Levy, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Dozens of coding boot camps have adopted this approach to offer two- to nine-month programs in technical specialties.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Tony and Jenny Keen are so proud of grandson Chris Schuler who just graduated from boot camp.
    Beverly Southall, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Options include cooking basics, intensive culinary boot camps (for adults or kids), date nights, healthy eating and kids/teens classes.
    Samantha Nelson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Smith has become one of several poster children for the work the Terps put in this summer at Kyle Tarp’s basketball boot camp.
    Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The 10 or 12 who make that cut will go to the boot camp and be judged on business feasibility and contributions to their community.
    Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Vocational schools and boot camps operate entirely on the ISA model.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2019
  • This minimum-security prison houses up to 90 adult male offenders for a boot camp program where nonviolent inmates can earn an early release.
    Ryan Faircloth, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The behind-the-scenes of these shows are kind of like a boot camp.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In 1923, the Navy opened its own boot camp next door to the depot.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The boot camp helped more than 100 writers learn the ins and outs of running a project.
    Amber Dowling, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the crew are as young as 18 and began this cruise fresh out of boot camp.
    Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
    Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Forced to get the shot to see my son graduate boot camp.
    cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Evans was the first of two recruits to die during boot camp this year.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Rest easy, zoomers — boot camp has been postponed for now.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • Drafted, Andrews went to boot camp at the then-new Fort Dix.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This caused a further blow to my self-esteem and the start of a sort of reform boot camp.
    Rommy Torrico, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His father, Thomas, died just before the young man shipped off to boot camp in 2005.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The next morning, half the house lays out by the pool while the other half goes through Nelly T's boot camp.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • One is off to compete around the globe, one is taking his trombone to boot camp and one is off to serve the poor.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024
  • Or join a boot camp through the empty and still-closed theme park (think: jumping jacks in the Avengers Campus).
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The last entrepreneurship boot camp was held in Dallas in 2019.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Working with Tom Cruise was its own kind of actor boot camp.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
  • The rare glimpse of this secretive boot camp came from Biles herself.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Opening up shorter avenues that are free or less expensive than for-profit boot camps can help.
    Olivia Sanchez, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
  • Wellness-minded travelers will also love the hotel’s indoor-outdoor gym that offers top-of-the-line equipment, yoga classes, and fitness boot camps, as well as wet and dry saunas and a cold plunge.
    Outside Online, 29 July 2024

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