How to Use work camp in a Sentence

work camp

noun

• She later was moved to a work camp, and then to Bergen-Belsen.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2022
• This journey takes him to the archives to find out more about Cuban work camps.
  — Holly Ojalvo, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2019
• The 50-second clip zoomed in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
• The other would be to plead guilty to one count of felony hazing and 60 days in a county jail work camp.
  — Joe Reedy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The prison is a work camp that runs multiple inmate crews.
  — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
• Kennan had come to write a defense of the sprawling network of work camps and prisons.
  — W. M. Akers, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Established in 1930, the ranch once was a work camp for the construction of the Stewart Mountain Dam.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
• Just one mile north of Philip, a TC Energy work camp lies empty.
  — Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
• Loung Ung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, but survived to tell her story.
  — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 21 Jan. 2016
• His family was forced into a work camp, and for four years, Eang lived on the brink of death, losing two of his siblings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
• When reporters finally got to the shattered work camps, the nation was outraged.
  — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2017
• At the railroad work camp, Fuqua shows Peter and the other slaves forced to walk in chains, stored in wooden pens and served food not fit for human consumption.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• By the time my father arrived, the family’s story—the flight, the work camps, the loss of a first son to Red Army conscription—was all part of a past not often spoken of.
  — Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
• By the end of the year, waste-sorting operations were transferred to Janowska, a work camp that later became a death camp.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The show also released a 50-second teaser trailer, zooming in on a snowy work camp with barking dogs and armed guards.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2020
• My father and a handful of his fellow yeshiva boys and their teacher arrived at the Soviet-run work camp in the summer of 1941.
  — Avi Shafran, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• He was sentenced last July to 30 months in prison for which he's expected to report to a federal prison work camp in Oregon.
  — Lauren Del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
• Kenneth Bae, a missionary from Washington state who spent two years in prison, said he was kept for the most part in a foreigners-only work camp.
  — Eric Talmadge, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Debora was facing a three-year sentence in a juvenile work camp.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• His staging, on a set by Brett J. Banakis that’s part verdant hillside, part work camp, part podium, is fluid enough to cover many of the logical cracks.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Unlike Samantha, Irina never received a response and her father was sent to a Siberian work camp.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018
• Gilles, who assumes the name Reza, is taken to a work camp that’s also a transit center for prisoners on their way to the Nazi death factories established in Poland.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• Archaeological digs show that Nazis built work camps and death camps on the islands near the northwestern coast of France, but records from the occupation are far-flung.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The other influx care facility, a former work camp in Pecos, Texas, has not housed children since earlier this year.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• Even if convicted, McGrath was unlikely to face much prison time and likely would have served his sentence at a federal work camp.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
• Erected in 1935 as a gulag work camp, Norilsk has grown into a nickel mining and smelting center.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• Erected in 1935 as a gulag work camp, Norilsk has grown into a nickel mining and smelting center.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2018
• Goodman is at a prison work camp in Crawfordville, south of Tallahassee, according to the state Department of Corrections.
  — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• To house all those workers, the company plans to build temporary 600-bed work camps in remote areas using modular housing units.
  — Bobby Magill, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2013
• Author Antonia Hylton masterfully explores all 93 years of the institution’s existence, from its humble beginnings as a small work camp to its end as a walled city housing thousands of patients.
  — Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024