caravan
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Her father Leo Steinem was a travelling salesman and, together with her mother Ruth and older sister Susanne, they lived in a caravan, crisscrossing the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The discovery was made near the very camping site – Le Solitaire du Lac – where the al-Hillis were staying in their caravan, Marianne reported.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
In an undeveloped eastern part of the city, the caravan turned off the pavement and bumped along a dirt road to an opening in the Joshua trees where a broken-down recreational vehicle came into view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
When Codona moved on to what has become his family's caravan site, just outside Elm, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in 2020, he did not have planning permission.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I was even angry that we had to bribe a caravan guard to let us leave with the body and return without it.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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People also distributed hand-drawn maps for caravans to follow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Last summer, officials in Basildon, Essex, counted more unauthorised caravans than anywhere else in England.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In January, the number of unauthorised traveller caravans – those without planning permission – across England stood at 4,950, a 73% increase on January 2020's figure of 2,860.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In July 2019, councils across England counted 23,636 traveller caravans.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
It was midday at a caravanserai—which you probably know is a station beside the roads where caravans rest.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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The next day, demonstrators caravanned to the fort’s front gate and set up camp.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
We caravanned up to Massachusetts and I cried in bursts for much of the drive, especially when we passed minivans encrusted with bike racks full of little, brightly colored bikes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
Cesar was there along with a contingent that had caravanned from the Willis Avenue Bridge.
From The Verge ● Sep. 13, 2021
In the final days of campaigning, flag-waving supporters of President Trump caravanned in vehicles through the state’s largest metro area in Albuquerque and suburban Rio Rancho.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 2, 2020
We caravanned to Kerry’s hometown with a bunch of people, squeezing into a car with Henry and Willow, who was so pregnant the seat belt wouldn’t fit over her bump.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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As the rising sun spat fiery fuchsia across the sky, three companions and I caravaned to an unmarked trailhead near the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
They caravaned to the Swiss border, then Montemaggi and two of the men entered the woods.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
She became so close with her classmates that two years later, when the program was finished, the group of aspiring filmmakers caravaned across the country to move to L.A. together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018
As the family caravaned to Harvard, Pam Ogletree tugged her husband’s Martha’s Vineyard baseball cap off his head and looked him over.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017
Others started to get into it as we caravaned past the Villas at Versailles.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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Highway capacity will be increased by a factor of four by caravaning.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2018
He built an empire based on caravaning — that’s what Australians call the popular pastime — and then invested in cycling, thoroughbreds, wine, soccer, basketball, technology and art.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
Yet this week the New Jersey governor was in a relative wilderness, caravaning along the slushy roads of eastern Iowa and sporting a different pin on his suit jacket: the Iowa state flag.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2015
Yeah, caravaning is inherently silly, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying the British countryside.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2012
Our only real disappointment is that caravaning makes you so tired that there is no chance of cricket, for we brought cricket things with us, but have never been able to use them.
From The Slowcoach by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Horse-drawn caravans were used as mobile homes in the early 19th Century, but leisure caravanning expanded rapidly after World War One.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
The city passed ordinances last year banning caravanning and street racing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
The global market for camping and caravanning is expected to grow 6.6 percent from 2020 to 2025, according to Research and Markets.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Most post-apocalyptic fiction offers hope in some form, whether it’s the caravanning Shakespeare companies of Station Eleven or the new family the son finds in The Road.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2020
But here let me say that caravanning for health and pleasure had better not be undertaken with a single carriage, however well horsed.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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