tent

Example Sentences

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On the same street, hundreds of people, mostly Shia but also including Palestinians and Syrian refugees, live in tent encampments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Anandarangam said the tent exists partly because visiting families are left waiting outside.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

From her tent in Deir el-Balah, an exhausted Shamala hoped for better days.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The volunteers waved the man’s family members away from the Ebola isolation tent at Mongbwalu General Hospital, where his body lay on a plastic sheet on the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

“Built by a fellow, oh, twenty years ago,” said Pa. “He was a squatter who pitched a tent in the woods and built that outhouse.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney