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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

At one period, the town was so crowded with his patients, that ten thousand of them were obliged to encamp without the walls.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

Glimmer, as funeral lamps, Amid the chills and damps Of the vast plain where Death encamps!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He encamps with the rest of his force near Hostilia on the Tartaro.

From Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe

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

Dulwich, Massachusetts May iyth, 1775 My dear Fruition — Earlier this Week, a Day of Marching in the Rain hath brought us to Dulwich, where we is encamped upon the Green.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

They had, therefore, come down to the Little Bow country with this determination, and encamping there waited for accurate information as to the strength and location of their enemies.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by John Maclean

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 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

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



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