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caravan

[kar-uh-van] / ˈkær əˌvæn /


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Detectives have also linked their wider investigation to a caravan fire on Attlee Road in Grangetown.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

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

For three magical summers between 1997 and 1999, the women’s festival known as Lilith Fair was a touring caravan of musicians, feminist activists and organizers that carried the message of women’s empowerment across North America.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

They argued that would mean "anyone who wants to live on land in a caravan must always get permission first".

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Another caravan had converged on this last watering hole before the city walls, a half night’s march away.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

That deadline passed in July 2025, but more than a dozen caravans and infrastructure remain.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

In July 2019, councils across England counted 23,636 traveller caravans.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Between July 2019 and July 2025, the number of unauthorised caravans in Basildon rose 164%.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Children in care as young as ten were also regularly moved between caravans and narrow boats.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

He had escaped the city that housed her memory by feeding the caravans.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

My cousins still caravanned from Anaheim to Los Angeles to celebrate the championships of both the Dodgers and Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2020

Carnell’s mother, MaryJo Peacock, said she believed her daughter and Koslosky had caravanned in multiple cars with coaches and other players to that summer’s California tournament.

From Seattle Times Nov. 17, 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

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

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

It has many advantages over caravaning by land.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith

He said he hadn’t seen candidates caravanning around the city in the usual fashion or even banners advertising candidacies.

From Seattle Times Nov. 6, 2022

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

Jane Chesson runs a small camping, caravanning and glamping site, Greenway Touring and Glamping, in Shropshire.

From BBC May 21, 2020

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

Now I do not for a moment mean to say that caravanning is the very best form of exercise one can have.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables




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