campground
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of campground
Example Sentences
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When asked if the campground should have been closed due to the severe weather, Tim Anderson, the police district commander, said that “it’s probably impossible to forecast something like this.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The deaths were reported at Welcome Bay, while rescue workers are still searching through rubble at a different site in a popular campground on Mount Maunganui.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026
Copen fondly remembers a weekend before the fire, when his group spent the entire time at a fairly isolated campground on site.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Large piles of ripped-out invasive plants dotted the campground; the sunlight finally hit the memorial’s foundation, which the adults there noted they hadn’t seen in decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
From a different campground, a thud-thud, like a drumbeat from some faraway rock song.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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