Sentence examples for old tent from inspiring English sources

A four-week old tent camp in the square looks scruffier by the day.

Daniel donated a big old tent to the town's charity group who distributed gifts at Christmas to poor children.

The New Yorker, December 20 , 1952P. 30 Daniel donated a big old tent to the town's charity group who distributed gifts at Christmas to poor children.

Inside the shop, I was told the electricity had failed, making it so dark that I could barely see the old tent hangings, flamboyantly embroidered in silk -- and had to carry them to the front door.

And if R.V. camping is an experience far afield from the little old tent in the wilderness, the close confines of the modern-day campground may be exactly the point.

Conversely, when Martin has his first erection — partly inspired by the tennis player Gabriela Sabatini — and asks his equally young friend Padraic what's happening, Padraic's expansive reply (wonderfully delivered by Ian O'Reilly) immediately floors you: "So you started to pitch the old tent, eh? Flying the flesh flag.

Early on, he and his brother tried to sleep in an exact replica of one of the old tents.

Obliged to improvise, they scavenged rations left by previous expeditions (and preserved by the cold), cut trousers out of old tents, smoked tea and lived chiefly off seal, which also provided blubber fuel.

In two run-down caravans and a couple of old tents on a farm in some of Australia's best wool-growing country, a dark secret of intergenerational incest and child abuse that has dominated the lives of 40 members of one family for decades has come to light.

Here and there, all alone in the emptiness, squats motionless a Bedouin woman, who, though she seems as unperceptive as a boulder, is keeping an eye on a camel or goat; and we pass a few torn and black Bedouin shelters that might be the old tents of Abraham.

The old tents, for instance, have become places of worship.