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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Their advanced guard of infantry and cavalry spread out into the plain, making for a line of hills spreading north-west from Striegau, where the army was to encamp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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
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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It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
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It passes the great caravan once every two or three days, and then encamps till the latter comes up, when they supply the Pasha's suite with provisions.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
The army that encamps on the battle-field after the battle, is the conquering army.
From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
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
Leicester were encamped in the home half for long periods, but failed to find the decisive pass as the hosts put their bodies on the line and forced the Foxes into mistakes.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
News spread quickly that the Sixers were encamped around a small flat-topped hill at the center of a remote forest.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Careless and uncared for, what happy lives they lead, sauntering on sagging wing through the sunshine from chosen field to chosen wood, and at nightfall encamping in the fragrant tents of the pines.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Eight hundred and forty strong, the regiment occupied a large space of ground, encamping in five lines, two companies in one line, or, as was called, regimental divisions.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
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
Although the ice over which we purposed travelling broke away from the land soon after setting out, yet we managed to get half way to the village before encamping.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
After resting an hour orders were given to move again, marching three miles to Upperville, encamping on the ground where Buford had a cavalry fight with the rebel leader, Stuart, the year previous.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill