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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

In the Sanayeh Gardens, the public gardens, refugees from bombed-out homes encamp under strange tall trees that bulge at the top.

From Time Magazine Archive

They try, if possible, to find some well by which they can encamp, and every man fills his own skins with water before starting afresh on his journey.

From The Animal Story Book by Various

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

Cold that encamps itself in the empty fire-place, and blows through the broken door, and paralyzes the naked limbs.

From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Their habits can, therefore, be observed through a long period of the year; while with us the bright army comes and encamps for a month or two and then vanishes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

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

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

Yet they walked all that day and most of the next before at last they reached the fringes of Lord Tywin's army, encamped west of the castle amidst the scorched remains of a town.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Finally, after a direct ascent of 4980 feet, followed by a descent of 3600 feet, we reached our encamping ground below the village which towered above us.

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

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 J. Newton Terrill

The troops were compelled to move the next day eighteen miles, encamping near Charlestown, the enemy again halting at Winchester.

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

Finally a move was made to the southern side of Lake Ontario, the army encamping at the mouth of what is now known as the Salmon River, a little east of Oswego.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur



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