How to Use prison camp in a Sentence

prison camp

noun

• All of Cuba is a prison camp and has been for 62 years.
  — Leora R. Levy, WSJ, 21 July 2021
• Then the Taft prison camp philosopher sidled up to him at the gym one day.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Ryu was captured and tortured and sent to a prison camp.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
• By that time, the Reds had heard about the prison camp and mass grave at Kalevankangas.
  — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
• Elec spent a few months in a British prison camp and fought in the Negev during the 1948 war over the creation of the Israeli state.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• The prison camp is located just a few miles from the front line — and about 12 miles from the city of Donetsk.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• While Meek remains locked up at a state prison Camp Hill, Penn.
  — Latifah Muhammad, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
• He has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison camp.
  — Raga Justin, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
• Not just the prison camp, but the entire society is like that.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024
• The bathroom shower was not fit for a prison camp and the 15-year-old kitchen felt cramped and dated.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
• The white boys really turned the prison camp into a chain gang.
  — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Those children are not sent to prison camps to lie on concrete floors.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2018
• He was held captive in a Chinese prison camp for 27 months.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
• By the time the march ended some 70 miles later at a prison camp, thousands had died.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• For the last months of his detention in 1970, he was moved to a prison camp at Oropos, north of Athens.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• One thing that will strain their bond is figuring out the best way to help the cause from within the prison camp.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• In Germany, Catherine is stripped of her belongings and her hair cut to the scalp at the prison camp.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some of these prison camps have been deep inside Syria, guarded by the SDF.
  — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
• Stockdale was asked, what was the characteristic of the ones who did not make it out of the prison camp?
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• She alone from her prison camp was selected as part of the same trade that freed her husband.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The few dozen Unangans captured by the Japanese in 1942 were sent to prison camps, where many died.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• For 13 of their first 19 months as a married couple, Richard Koch was locked in a German prison camp.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The plane didn’t have Red Cross markings or anything, so she got shot at, was in a prison camp in the Philippines for three years.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• But last June, a court rejected his appeal, clearing the way for him to be moved to a prison camp.
  — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2022
• He was convicted by a Russian court in 2020 and sentenced to nine years in a prison camp.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 July 2022
• He was convicted by a Russian court in mid-2020 and sentenced to nine years in a prison camp.
  — Stephanie Ferguson, ABC News, 8 July 2022
• Almost half the 150 people or so in Loretto’s prison camp showed up for the classes, said Ball.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• He has just been condemned on appeal by the Supreme Court of Karelia to thirteen years in a prison camp with a harsh regime.
  — Olivier Rolin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2020
• But last month, a court rejected his appeal against the sentence, clearing the way for him to be moved to a prison camp.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 July 2021
• Within a month, Obata got permission to open an art school at the prison camp.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024