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
Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night.
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The boats were drawn on the beach, and the party prepared to encamp.
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.
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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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Eugene, the Prussians having joined him, moves down towards Philipsburg and its cannonading; encamps close to rearward of the besieging French.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
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
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
Those who are encamped cannot be cited, either.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
Such made their way into the city, where transport ships seemed daily to arrive, disgorging regiments of soldiers who paraded through the streets and encamped upon the Common.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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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
But five miles were made on the 19th, as the troops were waiting for supplies, passing through Snickersville, near Snicker's Gap, and encamping in a field.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
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
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
A few having dismounted, were clearing the snow and pointing to the wood—no doubt to indicate that it was a good place for encamping.
From The Invasion of France in 1814 by Alexandre Chatrian
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