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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

They encamp at no great distance from the village, and divest themselves of their much-prized ornaments, which are carried back by the women, who have followed them for this purpose.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

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

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 John Buchan

An inconsiderable mountain bounds this fertile plain on the west, at about four miles’ distance from the ground where the pilgrim caravan usually encamps.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

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

Large crowds had rallied with the encamped protesters overnight, and hundreds more convened in front of Butler Library to call for amnesty for those who had been taken into police custody.

From Seattle Times Apr. 18, 2024

We have encamped upon the shore; abandoned our encampments; and now we have set off, at last, from the ruins of Norfolk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Leaving the gap, the division marched that afternoon six miles, joining the Potomac army at night, encamping in a field.

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

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

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

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 J. Newton Terrill

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



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