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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

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

Now the next question is, where shall we encamp ourselves?

From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos

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

He holds scarcely any ground but that upon which he encamps; outside the limits of his camp every thing is hostile and multiplies a thousandfold the difficulties he meets at every step.

From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell

Camp-meeting, a meeting held in the fields or woods for religious purposes, and where the assemblage encamps and remains several days.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide 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

They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.

From Salon ● May 23, 2024

At the UW, out of around 50,000 undergraduates and graduate students, only about 200 people are encamped, with an undetermined share of them being outsiders, not students.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

"His Grace is encamped with his host near Bitterbridge, where the roseroad crosses the Mander. It shall be my great honor to escort you to him."

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

Leaving the gap, the division marched that afternoon six miles, joining the Potomac army at night, encamping in a field.

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

Encamp′ment, the act of encamping: the place where an army or company is encamped: a camp.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Leaving Woodstock on the afternoon of the 23d, the troops marched six miles, passing the village of Edenburg, and encamping in woods near the railroad.

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

The column had advanced the evening previous until near the enemy, countermarching and encamping for the night.

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


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