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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

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

I hear that in future we are always to encamp on a hill, or at any rate, as far as possible, in a defensible position.

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

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

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

When anyone takes a prisoner, he makes his honours, and striking him gently in the hand, puts him out of the field and combat, and encamps where he stood.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux

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

Such made their way into the city, where transport ships seemed daily to arrive, disgorging regiments of soldiers who paraded through the streets and encamped upon the Common.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

If we reckoned upon encamping last night in a cosy meadow once more we were mistaken, we were glad to get standing room close to the road and behind a little public-house.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

The party returned after one night's encamping, the sledge having broken, and the tent and luggage being left behind.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge

Arriving at Martinsburg, two companies were stationed in a church, the others encamping near the town.

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

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



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