makeshift camp
Frequency: 4.51.2 per million words
a quickly assembled and non-permanent camp
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- Refugees fleeing the conflict found shelter in a sprawling makeshift camp.
- Thousands of refugees are living in a makeshift camp near the border.
- After the hurricane, a makeshift camp was set up in the stadium parking lot for displaced residents.
- The homeless population set up a makeshift camp under the highway overpass.
- The activists have occupied the park for weeks, living in a makeshift camp of tents and tarps.
- Survivors built a makeshift camp from debris after the earthquake struck.
- Authorities are concerned about the health conditions in the makeshift camp under the motorway.
- Stranded hikers created a makeshift camp to survive the freezing night.
- The reconnaissance team established a makeshift camp for the night deep inside enemy territory.
- Soldiers established a makeshift camp deep in the jungle during the operation.
- Stranded hikers constructed a makeshift camp using branches and leaves to survive the cold night.
- Protestors have occupied the park, turning it into a makeshift camp.
- Their makeshift camp consisted of little more than plastic sheeting strung between trees.
- They constructed a makeshift camp using tarps and wooden poles.
- The plan is to dismantle the makeshift camp and move the families to proper shelters.
- Medical teams set up a makeshift camp to treat the injured villagers.
- During the gold rush, miners lived in rough makeshift camps along the river.
- Police eventually dismantled the illegal makeshift camp on the outskirts of town.
- A reporter documented the daily struggles of life inside the crowded makeshift camp.
- Conditions in the crowded makeshift camp were deteriorating rapidly due to the rain.