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
In the Sanayeh Gardens, the public gardens, refugees from bombed-out homes encamp under strange tall trees that bulge at the top.
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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.
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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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The party encamps on a favourable position on the river.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
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
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
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
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
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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
Encamp′ment, the act of encamping: the place where an army or company is encamped: a camp.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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 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
In this man's close proximity Taras had arrived early in August, 1839, encamping with his much-lessened band on an open space within the Dembronia forest, about a mile from the Black Water.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos