encamped; encamping; encamps
: to set up or occupy a camp
: to place or establish in a camp
Examples of encamp in a Sentence
the hike will take several days, and we plan to encamp along the trail
as the hurricane raged outside, the stranded tourists were encamped overnight in the high school gym
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Hall and Hind spent months encamped in Eucalyptus’s Sydney, Australia offices, learning how the company’s customer support systems worked.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Since April, amid the now eight-month long Israel-Hamas war, university students in over two dozen schools across the country have taken to protesting and encamping in solidarity with Palestine to get their schools to break direct and indirect ties with Israel.
—Brenda Barrientos, refinery29.com, 14 June 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
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
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Since April, amid the now eight-month long Israel-Hamas war, university students in over two dozen schools across the country have taken to protesting and encamping in solidarity with Palestine to get their schools to break direct and indirect ties with Israel.
—Brenda Barrientos, refinery29.com, 14 June 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
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
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“Encamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encamp. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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