How to Use decamp in a Sentence

decamp

verb

• She took the papers and decamped.
• He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
• His best friend decamped to Texas and a home twice as big.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018
• But over the decades many of the big names have decamped for Midtown.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• The 49ers will decamp to the desert for much of December.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Others decamped to the 'burbs, or went abroad for work.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 July 2019
• Fast forward a year or so, and the two were ready to decamp East L.A. for Malibu.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
• The couple paid it for one year and then decamped for Europe.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• Salvini has styled himself as a man-of-the-people who for most of the summer has decamped to the beach.
  — NBC News, 11 Aug. 2019
• In the nineties, many of Xi’s peers decamped to Hong Kong and elsewhere to make their fortunes, but Xi didn’t join them.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2019
• After the union was sealed with a kiss, everyone decamped for the Brook Club on 54th Street.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 13 June 2018
• Rumors suggest the world No. 2 will soon decamp to LIV.
  — Eamon Lynch, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
• Author David Sedaris decamped to Japan for three months to quit smoking.
  — refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• But when the threesome decamped to a suite later, the guard outside asked Hardaway for his pass.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 28 June 2018
• The family plan to decamp to a cottage in the grounds or their London apartment and give their paying guests the run of the place.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• That explains why New Yorkers are decamping to the Catskills on the weekends in search of fresh air and no cell signal.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 23 July 2018
• Meanwhile, Peter and his friends decamped to the Bowery Hotel to get dressed.
  — Lynn Suhrie, Town & Country, 2 Jan. 2013
• He was not believed to be in the complex when it was hit, having decamped to the south when the Israeli campaign began.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• In 2020, Swisher decamped for Washington, D.C., for a change of scenery.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• Armies of workers decamped into the fields, fires raged and giant fans and helicopter blades whipped up the icy air.
  — Guy Collins, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2017
• Faiyaz and his team decamped to the Dominican Republic in summer 2017 to work on it.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The band decamped to Guilford, Vermont to record the project, and gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album in a new short documentary.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• That might be one reason why Gunn has since decamped from Marvel to help run the rival DC universe.
  — Vulture, 4 May 2023
• First the covid-19 pandemic prompted many from the Bay Area to decamp for their houses here, bringing the virus along with them in some cases.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• The film centers around a group of rich 20-somethings who decamp to a regal estate to wait out a hurricane.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
• Perfect for families, a group of friends, or those looking to decamp to the mountain region for a longer stay.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 May 2022
• The threat of another arrest — and possible jail time — forced her to decamp from the park, Thornton said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• Many decamped in search of a brighter future elsewhere, leaving their homes empty for decades.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Then, when the pandemic hit, the couple and their three school-age children, as well as Offit’s mother and brother, chose to decamp to the leafy idyll full-time.
  — Sarah Lyon, Architectural Digest, 16 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024