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
Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window.
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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.
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It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
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Several hamlets appear scattered about, which are comprised in the general name of Kholeys; the largest is called Es-Souk, or the market- place, near which the Hadj encamps.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis
He encamps here, on the Heights, head-quarter Pulsnitz,—till Quintus come up with the baggage, which he does punctually, but not till nightfall, not till midnight the last of him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
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
Those who are encamped cannot be cited, either.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
The Continental Army was encamped at a place called Valley Forge out in Pennsylvania somewhere.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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 Chatrian, Alexandre
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 Terrill, J. Newton
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 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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 Parkman, Francis
Arriving at Martinsburg, two companies were stationed in a church, the others encamping near the town.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton