Sentence examples for tent town from inspiring English sources

Founded in 1900, Calexico was once a tent town for the Imperial Land Company.

The demonstrators have transformed Sol into a bustling tent town at the heart of Spain's capital, maintained by donations of food, fuel, even computers.

She was born with the advent of the railroad through the Nevada desert, set up as a tent town for workers in May 1905.

Last Tuesday night, two people were killed after shooting erupted at a sprawling tent town known as the Jungle, a couple of miles from the city centre.

Named in 1906 for Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, it began as a tent town and developed after 1914 as the terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (later the Canadian National Railway).

Founded in 1888 as a tent town before the arrival of the Chicago and North Western Railway, the town was named Casper (a misspelling of Collins's name) by clerical error.

But instead of baddies, we found Bedouin tent towns, camels and the shredded lettucelike remains of defeated Iraqi armor from Desert Storm.

There was more throat-slashing in Hell on Wheels, a meretriciously brutal drama set in a travelling tent-town of traders, barkers, gamblers, preachers and saloon whores slowly following America's Union Pacific railroad diggers from east to west in the wake of the civil war.

This one was in a tent in town, and the race in question is Friday's men's Super G.

He stands amid the dusty rows of tents in the UNHCR transit camp for refugees in Toe Town, eastern Liberia.

This approach, alternating tenting with town life, makes for an extremely civilized way to get away from civilization.