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 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
  • 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
  • The tent cities in Los Angeles and in nearly every Californian city are partly a product of this systematic and willful neglect.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Oct. 2023
  • My advocacy during tent city led our community to come up with a comprehensive plan to address homelessness.
    Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024

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