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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

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 Thomas Bulfinch

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

Wherefore, not thinking it convenient to abide long so near them, away marches the army, and encamps in the fields.

From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington

It passes the great caravan once every two or three days, and then encamps till the latter comes up, when they supply the Pasha's suite with provisions.

From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 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

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

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

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

At 10 o'clock the regiment marched up a hill about one mile, encamping in an orchard, remaining ten days; doing guard duty, picket and drilling, expecting daily orders to move.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill

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 Alexandre Chatrian

The division was ordered to join in the pursuit; being placed in baggage cars for Washington, forty miles distant, reaching the suburbs of the city at night, encamping until morning.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill

The Regiment encamping on a hill near a battery, arms were stacked, the men prepared their evening meal.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill



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