CAMP in a Sentence

Learn CAMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
271 example sentences for CAMP, such as:
1. They pitched camp by the river.
2. Stealthily we approached the enemy's camp.
3. The travelers set up a camp on the river bank.
4. One group left the camp to forage for firewood.
5. Our army pounded at the enemy's camp and destroyed it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CAMP
camp
 v.  live in or as if in a tent
 n.  a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
Classic Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  "He died in camp," said Scarlett flatly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  War romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  When, at last, they had neared Rough and Ready, a few camp fires were gleaming where the last of Steve Lee's rear guard was awaiting orders to fall back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Now that Rene was home, he drove an old wagon to the Yankee camp every day and sold cakes and pies and beaten biscuits to the soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Mrs. Allison's son had died in a Northern prison camp and she, the poorest of the poor, was unable to bring his body home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  A convict camp ain't any place for a lady and if nobody else'll tell you so, Johnnie Gallegher's telling you now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Johnnie Gallegher was standing in the doorway of the miserable shack that served as cook room for the little lumber camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  There was something sinister about this camp with its ugly shacks, something which had not been here when Hugh Elsing had it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  She would have to cower at the seat of judgment and answer for that lie she told him coming back from the Yankee camp in his buggy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  I know very well that Johnnie Gallegher has killed at least one man at his camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
13  Even when he acted like he was going to make me pay to get that money from him at the Yankee camp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
14  About this time she was farther cheered by an invitation to spend the Thanksgiving week at a camp in the Adirondacks.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
15  The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Extra men are needed to secure the camp against attack.
2  The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
3  The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
4  The travelers set up a camp on the river bank.
5  The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.
6  Two men were sent up the mountain while the main party of climbers remained at base camp.
7  The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
8  A tunnel entrance was found within the precincts of the prison camp.
9  Because of the popularity of the region, it is advisable to book hotels or camp sites in advance.
10  The Allied troops are advancing on the camp of the enemy.
11  Stealthily we approached the enemy's camp.
12  They pitched camp by the river.
13  It was dark and their entry into the camp had gone unnoticed.
14  One group left the camp to forage for firewood.
15  Our army pounded at the enemy's camp and destroyed it.