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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Earlier, in March, a STAT survey of more than 1,000 researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health found that labs are closing, early-career researchers are decamping for other fields, and scientists no longer trust the federal government as a scientific partner.
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Lauren Chan, STAT, 19 June 2026
Burnham came second and subsequently decamped to Manchester.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
What’s not on LinkedIn, McGuire said, is that she was involved in her family’s mill until three years ago, when her sister, who was running it, sold the company after the heir to the business — McGuire’s niece — decamped to New York to become a fashion designer.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 12 June 2026
Outside of permitting and other procedural measures — annoying when disregarded, but not the main reason producers decamp elsewhere — mayoral efforts mainly involve lobbying other people to do something.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
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Lauren Chan, STAT, 19 June 2026
Burnham came second and subsequently decamped to Manchester.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
What’s not on LinkedIn, McGuire said, is that she was involved in her family’s mill until three years ago, when her sister, who was running it, sold the company after the heir to the business — McGuire’s niece — decamped to New York to become a fashion designer.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 12 June 2026
Outside of permitting and other procedural measures — annoying when disregarded, but not the main reason producers decamp elsewhere — mayoral efforts mainly involve lobbying other people to do something.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for decamp
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decamp. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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