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

Here is the opening:    The roaming, tentless wind    No rest can ever find— From east, and west, and south, and north He is for ever driven forth!

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar