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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

We were then to march up it, and to encamp upon the plateau for the night.

From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

Camp-meeting, a meeting held in the fields or woods for religious purposes, and where the assemblage encamps and remains several days.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

A Tatar horde called Sirtof likewise encamps on the lands of the Kalmucks, within sixty miles of Astrakhan, on the road to Kisliar.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

Exeter had Woodburn yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on five minutes later as Leicester encamped themselves deep in the visitors' red zone.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

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

“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

He did well to send me, Reek told himself as he climbed back onto his stot to lead his ragged column back across the boggy ground to where the northmen were encamped.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

While we were in the act of encamping, I had placed my powder-flask on the ground, and, on lighting the fire, neglected to remove it.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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

The men were paroled on the spot, the guns spiked, and the rebels retreated in haste back into Virginia, our army encamping near Harper's Ferry.

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

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 John Maclean

The column had advanced the evening previous until near the enemy, countermarching and encamping for the night.

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


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