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encamp

[en-kamp] / ɛnˈkæmp /
VERB
make camp
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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

No coveted log shanty, where at least they could encamp for the night, decorated it.

From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The angel of the Lord encamps About those who revere him, and saves them.

From The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman

Cold that encamps itself in the empty fire-place, and blows through the broken door, and paralyzes the naked limbs.

From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

One executive still firmly encamped at Apple is Cook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

“Overnight camping in University parking lots creates unsanitary and unsafe conditions for both those encamped and for our campus community at large,” the email said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

The fact that his people were already in arms and the still more ominous fact that the Rutulian Army had encamped before his gates were too much for King Latinus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

When dusk had fallen, and all was quiet, the Emperor disembarked, encamping with his troops among the rock-hewn burial places of the ancient Phœnicians, which abounded on that coast.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Lilian Gask

On June 1st the headquarter wagons were sent ahead, marching eighteen miles, and encamping near Fairfax Court House.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill



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