verb
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- unencamped adjective
Etymology
Origin of encamp
Vocabulary lists containing encamp
Example Sentences
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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
The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
They then encamp in skin tents, in various directions from the Missouri or along its banks, wherever the buffalo may chance to range.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
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