Camp Lejeune

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noun

a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.

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How to use Camp Lejeune in a sentence

This scene took place July 7 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, as part of a training exercise.
The US Marines are testing flying, remote-controlled grenades|Rob Verger|July 13, 2021|Popular-Science
As for the Marines at Camp Lejeune, the same exercise also included a drone called the Switchblade, which also carries munitions and is destroyed when its payload explodes.
The US Marines are testing flying, remote-controlled grenades|Rob Verger|July 13, 2021|Popular-Science
The envelope was addressed in the name of a son Jenkins and his wife lost during childbirth, with a return address of Camp Lejeune, where Jenkins served in the Marines.
Ex-bail bondsman who helped Gun Trace Task Force leader sell drugs is home from prison|Justin Fenton|June 30, 2021|Washington Post
Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’|Marlow Stern|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For now, Sabrine continues her daily routine of visits to the protest camp, to political leaders and taking care of the twins.
A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda|Ruth Michaelson|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The prison camp island nation known as Cuba erupted in celebration.
Obama’s One Hand Clap With Castro|Doug McIntyre|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Meanwhile, he had been selected as aide-de-camp by General d'Ure de Molans.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Thus the whole State became one vast armed camp, nearly forty thousand men on a side, arrayed against each other.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn