tent
noun
a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
tentless
-
a word derived from
tent.
Example Sentences
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The tentless encampment was largely calm, punctuated by occasional chants and speeches.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2024
We’ve also arrived in summer, with highs in the 80s, cloudless skies and, for some of us, tentless nights beneath the spangled heavens.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
Where there would have been the kind of hospitality tent Mickelson thwacked with his errant drive in 2006, way off to the left, the stretch beside No. 18 spends this week completely tentless.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2020
Gone is the sawdust; rubber matting is much easier to put down and neater to take up in the auditoriums where the tentless circus now plays.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll wander on, wi' tentless heed How never-halting moments speed, Till fate shall snap the brittle thread; Then, all unknown, I'll lay me with th' inglorious dead Forgot and gone!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
