How to Use boot camp in a Sentence

boot camp

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, to take it from boot camp to this moment, now, I’m just filled with gratitude.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hutchings left for Marine boot camp in 2022, the news report said.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • What happened to me was somewhere between a god moment and a boot camp.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Trending Stories The seaside is froth and laughter, bass beats and boot camps.
    Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Falke quit high school a half-credit short of graduating and went to boot camp in San Diego.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • After a tough boot camp, your joints may need a jolt to disengage and relax.
    Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, 25 Mar. 2021
  • All came to be challenged − something Chan says the boot camp delivers on.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • Contestants who make it to the next round will be chosen to go to A2K‘s boot camp in Los Angeles.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 25 July 2022
  • At the time, her husband was going through Navy boot camp training in Great Lakes, Illinois.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Think of these next six weeks as a boot camp for Quickley to grow as a playmaker and learn how to be a starting point guard in this league.
    Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • He was starry-eyed throughout Facebook’s six-week boot camp for new hires.
    Sonia Paul, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The Dallas Opera will launch an online summer boot camp for children on June 29.
    Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 25 June 2020
  • But, this isn’t an ascetic boot camp — the resort is pure luxury.
    Sandra Ramani, Robb Report, 7 May 2022
  • Those who emerge successfully from the audition process must then endure boot camp.
    Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024

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