How to Use tent city in a Sentence

tent city

noun

• In less than an hour, the tent city was swept away and the lawn area cleaned.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
• The grassy area across from Geisel Library where the tent city once sat was cordoned off.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• The tent city where Sam lived wasn’t just outside the perimeter of the convention.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• The same goes for the European Union, which could build tent cities for temporary refuge.
  — Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024
• The creation of the sprawling tent cities would be paid for by the the U.S. and its Arab Gulf partners, the proposal reportedly said.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Hundreds of migrants were evicted from a tent city in Denver.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• The first batch of migrants was bused to a makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday and took one look and were ready to leave, according to reports.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
• More than 1 million people have squeezed in and around the southern city of Rafah, joining swelling tent cities near the Egyptian border.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Those same attacks also killed at least 90 Palestinians in the sprawling tent city of Al-Mawasi, the Gaza health ministry said.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
• And barely 100 yards away, on the historic pow-wow grounds of the Bad River Tribe, stands a small tent city still thawing out from yesterday’s first snow.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• The next day, Shafik, the university president, authorized New York police to swoop in and break up the tent city.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• During the Taliban’s first reign, from when Popal was age 9 to 14, she was stuck in a Pakistani refugee tent city, with soccer as her only outlet.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some have found homes far away; others are living in tent cities and containers nearby.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
• Many tribal elders see the tent city on the sacred pow-wow grounds as an affront and the harm reduction team’s efforts as enabling.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• In a tent city near Gaza’s border with Egypt, desperation is running high.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Migrants and activists have turned a stretch of the adjoining street into a hybrid tent city, protest site and memorial.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• The government did not allow the miners to own land on the goldfields, or to vote, so the town was a tent city of the disenfranchised, marked by noise, mine shafts and flags marking different enclaves.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The worst off are in tent cities, many of them informal, erected on sidewalks or empty blocks, the skeletons of standing buildings casting shadows around them.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
• On a recent day in the middle of the tent city, erected by this community of Kurdish migrant farmers on the first day after the earthquake, a group of nine children has made up a game.
  — Erin O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• With no room left in shelters, the children stayed in jail-like facilities run by Customs and Border Protection and, later, in tent cities.
  — Hannah Dreier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Johnson’s remarks barely registered in the tent city, where students sat in circles painting posters and chanting.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• With the tent city gone, campus was back to business as usual, although the evening brought a rally sponsored by the union representing student workers, which drew about 300 people.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• In an early action sequence, Apache warriors attack a dance in the Horizon tent city, a scene that plays like a right-wing fever dream, where guns are salvation against the faceless Indigenous other.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• New York City, in particular, has struggled to house tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from Venezuela, in over 200 hotels, shelters, tent cities and other facilities.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Images of men crammed behind metal barricades in a line that wound around a Manhattan block drew comparisons to migrant surges that have overwhelmed the streets of European countries and chaotic tent cities on the West Coast.
  — Nate Schweber, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Under Inside Safe, which Bass launched shortly after taking office in December, city staffers target tent cities under bridges or on sidewalks.
  — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2023
• The village has grown into a densely populated tent city since the start of the war, becoming more crowded as some of the more than 1 million people who were sheltering in nearby Rafah fled the ground invasion that began there last month.
  — Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 22 June 2024
• Thousands of migrants requesting asylum were sent back to Mexico to wait for their appointments or court hearings, resulting in the creation of a large-scale tent city in Matamoros, Mexico.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• At the University of Virginia on Saturday, police at times sprayed a chemical irritant to help arrest roughly 25 protesters and take down a tent city.
  — CBS News, 5 May 2024
• One million people are estimated to be crammed into a tent city in the southern Gaza location, with satellite images showing that the makeshift shelter is rapidly expanding.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024