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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

In the Sanayeh Gardens, the public gardens, refugees from bombed-out homes encamp under strange tall trees that bulge at the top.

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

Glimmer, as funeral lamps, Amid the chills and damps Of the vast plain where Death encamps!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 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

Those who are encamped cannot be cited, either.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

"His Grace is encamped with his host near Bitterbridge, where the roseroad crosses the Mander. It shall be my great honor to escort you to him."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

After resting an hour orders were given to move again, marching three miles to Upperville, encamping on the ground where Buford had a cavalry fight with the rebel leader, Stuart, the year previous.

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

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

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

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



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