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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

A march of three days more brought us to Decatur, Miss. The 16th Army Corps passed on beyond the place to encamp for the night.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by Downs, E. C.

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

That is Dauphiness's posture while Friedrich encamps at Lutzen:—let impatient human nature fix these three places for itself, and hasten to the catastrophe of wretched Dauphiness.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

The king cannot bear the idea of returning to his palace, but encamps near the grove of the penitents.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

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

Large crowds had rallied with the encamped protesters overnight, and hundreds more convened in front of Butler Library to call for amnesty for those who had been taken into police custody.

From Seattle Times Apr. 18, 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

A host of the enemy was encamped upon it, three miles west of Amon Dîn, and some strength of men was already thrusting along the road and was no more than three leagues away.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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 Terrill, J. Newton

In this man's close proximity Taras had arrived early in August, 1839, encamping with his much-lessened band on an open space within the Dembronia forest, about a mile from the Black Water.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

The division was ordered to join in the pursuit; being placed in baggage cars for Washington, forty miles distant, reaching the suburbs of the city at night, encamping until morning.

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

When dusk had fallen, and all was quiet, the Emperor disembarked, encamping with his troops among the rock-hewn burial places of the ancient Phœnicians, which abounded on that coast.

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian



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