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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

Major Cooper then determined upon the best course to be pursued, namely, to march straight on to this station, to encamp there, and to march his men back at daybreak to work upon the road.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

A Tatar horde called Sirtof likewise encamps on the lands of the Kalmucks, within sixty miles of Astrakhan, on the road to Kisliar.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

He encamps with the rest of his force near Hostilia on the Tartaro.

From Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Fyfe, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

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

One of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment who were encamped upon the Common was earning a little money helping at the Lyte stable.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The process of encamping for a camp of seventy tents 374 takes about two hours, and many interruptions occur, especially the clamorous demands of unweaned infants of mature years.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

When he was ready to proceed on his journey, he set out with the same nonchalance as characterized his encamping so near to the scene of his late restraint.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis

But five miles were made on the 19th, as the troops were waiting for supplies, passing through Snickersville, near Snicker's Gap, and encamping in a field.

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

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 Chatrian, Alexandre

We marched back by the old route, encamping as we had done more than four years before in the deep valleys of the Maglung and Turet.

From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by Johnstone, James Johnstone, chevalier de



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