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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the first of March we halted to encamp at about the position of the magnetic pole—for no cairn remains to mark the spot.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

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

The king cannot bear the idea of returning to his palace, but encamps near the grove of the penitents.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

He holds scarcely any ground but that upon which he encamps; outside the limits of his camp every thing is hostile and multiplies a thousandfold the difficulties he meets at every step.

From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell

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

They knew this because the entire Sixer army was now encamped around the castle.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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 J. Newton Terrill

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

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

Finally, after a direct ascent of 4980 feet, followed by a descent of 3600 feet, we reached our encamping ground below the village which towered above us.

From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone

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



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