decamp

Example Sentences

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"They'd just decamp to Manchester and you wouldn't see them again until Tuesday or Wednesday the next week, looking like they'd had quite a good time."

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Barron’s Karishma Vanjani writes that overseas investors’ desire to decamp from Treasuries is already a concern.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Some financial firms made moves to decamp to the City, where a cluster of new skyscrapers has shot up recently.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Yet others question whether anything like a Mamdani mayoralty would really provoke millionaires and billionaires to decamp.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

The principal spoke with such gravity that Christine and her classmates worried they might have to pack up their books and decamp for the other side of town at that very moment.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly