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

Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window.

From Time Magazine Archive

As we prepared to encamp, we observed the ashes of a fire, the footprints of men and horses, and other indications that a party had been upon the spot not many days before.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis