encamp

Example Sentences

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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

The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had examined the coast, and found a river a short distance below, on which we might encamp for the winter, with a sufficiency of elk for our subsistence within reach.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas