transit camp
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
While waiting at the interim transit camp in the United Arab Emirates, he asked for writing supplies for the children so he could teach them English before they arrived in the U.S.,
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
He was interned in Westerbork, a former Nazi transit camp then in use as a prison for collaborators.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
Mr. Scheuer was seized and eventually sent to Westerbork, a transit camp where Jews in the Netherlands waited to be deported to concentration camps.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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