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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

Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night.

From Time Magazine Archive

None have such attendants as they have:—angels rejoice when they are born again; angels minister to them; and angels encamp around them.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

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

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

Friedrich encamps for the night; expecting an attack.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

“Overnight camping in University parking lots creates unsanitary and unsafe conditions for both those encamped and for our campus community at large,” the email said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2023

The second letter didn’t tell so much, except that they were encamped someplace in New Jersey and probably would stay there for the winter.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

On the first occasion Ala-ud-din defeated them under the walls of his capital; on the second, after encamping for two months in the neighbourhood of the city, they retired without a battle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Eight hundred and forty strong, the regiment occupied a large space of ground, encamping in five lines, two companies in one line, or, as was called, regimental divisions.

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

The next day the column again started, marching seven miles, the 2d corps halting at Buckley's Mills, and the 3d corps encamping at Catlet's Station.

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



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