How to Use encamp in a Sentence

encamp

verb
  • The local leaders are inviting the protesters, some armed, to encamp for the long haul.
    — WSJ, 12 June 2020
  • Protesters will be barred from encamping in the space going forward, Smith said.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • It's believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter or while attempting to walk back to civilization.
    — Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2024
  • It's believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter, or while attempting to walk back to civilization.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Students swarmed Howard’s administration and encamped there in late March.
    — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Depending on the supply of food and water within, those inside could often outlast the enemy encamped beyond the walls.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Depending on the supply of food and water within, those inside could often outlast the enemy encamped beyond the walls.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Its cafés were battlegrounds of the Dreyfus Affair, each side encamped in partisan locales.
    — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Thousands of farmers from these states descended on New Delhi and have remained encamped on its outskirts ever since.
    — Surupa Gupta, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2021
  • During his deployment, his unit was encamped in one of Saddam Hussein’s private palaces, which had a piano in its basement.
    — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • As students across the nation encamped, expressing their rage at the atrocities in Gaza, some colleges called on police to remove encampments.
    — Elizabeth H. Bradley, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
  • But the photo of the flyer in the Instagram post was not taken after students encamped at Columbia University.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Sidewalk cafes are thronged and fountains in the heart of the city, where protesters encamped for months in 2013 to oust the Russia-friendly government, now bubble to music at night.
    — Carol Morello, Washington Post, 9 July 2017
  • The number of caravan migrants encamped at Tijuana’s main shelter has dropped by more than half, according to local government officials and social workers.
    — Juan Montes, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • We had all been encamped at my grandparents’ place for some school break and, desperately in need of an escape, took up the offer from some very stylish friends of my parents for cocktails and dinner at their place in Palm Beach.
    — Steven Stolman, House Beautiful, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Malkki kept her focus on elucidating the music, seemingly oblivious to a raging thunderstorm that sent the few hardy souls encamped on the lawn scurrying for cover on Friday.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2017
  • While the volcano remains dangerous, with large numbers of local villagers encamped in emergency shelters, officials have begun discussing post-eruption recovery.
    — Aaron Favila and Jim Gomez, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Buy Photo Beneath four underpasses in Kensington, hundreds of people have been encamped for months, and many face a May 30 deadline to clear out.
    — Antoinette Kraus, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • The long-simmering standoff between Sudan’s military regime and civilian protesters encamped in the capital of Khartoum exploded this week.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
  • Hall and Hind spent months encamped in Eucalyptus’s Sydney, Australia offices, learning how the company’s customer support systems worked.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • First, encamped students were passionate about elevating awareness of and taking action to address the abject suffering of innocent Palestinian civilians.
    — Elizabeth H. Bradley, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
  • Instead of encamping in France, as was intended, the league’s Paris franchise will instead be based in New Jersey at the start of the season, according to two people familiar with the team’s operations and housing situation.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020

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