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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

Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou must encamp against them with the fire of nature, and be sure thou dost bring thy line round about.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.

From Time Magazine Archive

He encamps with the rest of his force near Hostilia on the Tartaro.

From Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Fyfe, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

This is a story that I heard from the King of the Numidians, who with his tattered retinue encamps behind the peat-ricks.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

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

Would that we were encamped like unto the Israelites, according to our own Tribes, every Man by his own Camp, & every Man by his own Standard, throughout our Hosts.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

They had, therefore, come down to the Little Bow country with this determination, and encamping there waited for accurate information as to the strength and location of their enemies.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John

The next day the column again started, marching seven miles, the 2d corps halting at Buckley's Mills, and the 3d corps encamping at Catlet's Station.

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

But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them, encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

Leaving Woodstock on the afternoon of the 23d, the troops marched six miles, passing the village of Edenburg, and encamping in woods near the railroad.

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

On the 30th of October the troops again moved forward, marching seven miles to Warrenton Junction and encamping near Bealton Station.

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



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