decamped; decamping; decamps
Examples of decamp in a Sentence
She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
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Jaffer Zaidi, Google global vice president of news partnerships, who is normally based in New York, decamped to Sacramento for two to three weeks as the deal came together, according to another person familiar with the matter.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who has decamped to run in the 1st District to give himself a better shot at reelection.
—Cooper Burton, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
During the summers, our family decamped from the apartment in New York to a house that my parents had built on an island in Maine, which my father had first visited as a bachelor.
—Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Many of those journalists had lost work in 1957 when the Dodgers and Giants decamped for California.
—Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who has decamped to run in the 1st District to give himself a better shot at reelection.
—Cooper Burton, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
During the summers, our family decamped from the apartment in New York to a house that my parents had built on an island in Maine, which my father had first visited as a bachelor.
—Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Many of those journalists had lost work in 1957 when the Dodgers and Giants decamped for California.
—Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decamp. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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