How to Use labor camp in a Sentence
labor camp
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Most lived in barracks in a labor camp next to the plant.
—jsonline.com, 20 May 2021
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At least one of them was sentenced to work in a labor camp.
—Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 11 May 2018
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By the end of the 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union’s time zones.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
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In 1944, the Nazis sent him and Adolfas to a labor camp in Germany.
—Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
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His father, Mirko, a maitre d’hotel, was sent to a labor camp and died there.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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Still, a judge sentenced Reed to nine years in a labor camp.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
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The three wound up in the Strasshof labor camp near Vienna.
—Joseph Berger, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
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He was sent to a labor camp for six months, Park later heard.
—Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 9 Oct. 2017
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At 6 years old, Yakov was forced into a labor camp in Libya.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
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HIs father was sent to a labor camp and his mother to Siberia.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2019
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As Jews, Turgel and her family were rounded up by the Nazis and sent to the Płaszów labor camp.
—Andrea Diaz, CNN, 11 June 2018
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But in 1943, Schindler managed to move them to a nearby compound, the Brünnlitz labor camp.
—Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
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They were caught by the Russian army and sent to separate labor camps in Siberia.
—Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
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Her precious teacher…had she been sent to a labor camp?
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
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These were the same labor camps that minor criminals were sent to.
—Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
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At the end of 1942, the remaining Jews of Illintsi were deported to a labor camp and the ghetto was destroyed.
—sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
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That such a labor camp could exist today told Morales how fast the gains of three decades can be undone.
—Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
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Gregg was captured and sent to a labor camp near Dresden, Germany.
—National Geographic, 6 May 2020
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For minor crimes the sentence was time in a labor camp, where offenders slept outside on the ground.
—Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
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One of her cousins worked in a labor camp harvesting sugar.
—Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2020
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But he was raised in a labor camp and thus has firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing his workers.
—Lettie Teague, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
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Why did Hitler’s plan to eradicate the Jews through slave labor camps in Poland begin with 999 young women?
—National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
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The judge overseeing Trevor Reed's case still sentenced him to nine years in Russia's labor camp.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
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In June, a judge ruled that Fogel would serve 14 years in a labor camp, under charges of large-scale drug trafficking.
—Anisha Kohli, Time, 10 Dec. 2022
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Marc Fogel, meanwhile, got 14 and is in a labor camp in Siberia or some other far-flung outpost.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
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The State Department announces that Bae has been moved from a hospital to a labor camp.
—CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
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The two married in 1996, in a ceremony at the labor camp attended by half a dozen friends.
—Josh Chin, WSJ, 13 July 2017
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Whelan was convicted in a closed-door court hearing and sentenced to 16 years in a labor camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
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Hunter would learn, for example, that her cousin, Józef, was born in a Siberian labor camp, and that his mother used her breast milk to keep his eyes from freezing in the harsh weather.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
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Boys are being forced into labor camps and girls are kidnapped to become comfort women.
—Janika Oza, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
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