encamp
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Brooke Keast, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections, said 19 networks and 120 reporters are expected to encamp outside Lovelock Correctional Center, where he is serving time for robbery and kidnapping convictions in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
Every summer, as part of a Landsbjörg initiative called Safe Travel, rescue teams encamp there for a week at a time to patrol the area and be on hand for the inevitable mishaps.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
They also attract squatters, who sometimes encamp beneath covered patios, he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2011
In the Sanayeh Gardens, the public gardens, refugees from bombed-out homes encamp under strange tall trees that bulge at the top.
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“Should all go well, we shall encamp at Burns Hill this evening, and there await the arrival of Major Sutton’s ‘commando’ of Hottentots from the Kat River.
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by J. Percy-Groves
Every four years, news organizations commit millions of dollars to the care and feeding of the journalistic army — 15,000 strong this time around — that encamps in the two host cities.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2012
It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
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When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts.
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The king cannot bear the idea of returning to his palace, but encamps near the grove of the penitents.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Wherefore, not thinking it convenient to abide long so near them, away marches the army, and encamps in the fields.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
One executive still firmly encamped at Apple is Cook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
A movement long defined by shaggy hippies encamped in old-growth redwoods and Indigenous protesters chained to construction equipment was remade in the image of two nonbinary university students wielding cans of tomato soup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
At the UW, out of around 50,000 undergraduates and graduate students, only about 200 people are encamped, with an undetermined share of them being outsiders, not students.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
They knew this because the entire Sixer army was now encamped around the castle.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Not long afterwards the whole host began to assemble below Pesth, encamping on the bank of the Danube; a bridge suddenly sprang into sight, and across it passed army corps, heavy cannons and wagons.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
The process of encamping for a camp of seventy tents 374 takes about two hours, and many interruptions occur, especially the clamorous demands of unweaned infants of mature years.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
In this man's close proximity Taras had arrived early in August, 1839, encamping with his much-lessened band on an open space within the Dembronia forest, about a mile from the Black Water.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
Encamp′ment, the act of encamping: the place where an army or company is encamped: a camp.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Sometimes his anxious scrutiny would detect a faint blue smoke stealing upward above the green bosom of the forest, and betraying the encamping place of some lurking war-party.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman