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
• 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
• 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 with the other greenhouse farmers encamped in spartan, one-room dwellings scattered across the slope, Mr. Li’s venture has managed to gain him a bit more security, at least for now.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• Its cafés were battlegrounds of the Dreyfus Affair, each side encamped in partisan locales.
  — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• 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, 10 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Migrants have been encamped and exposed to the elements all day in El Paso — cold in the evening and early morning hours and hot daytime temperatures that are scorching and dangerous in the Texas sun.
  — Adrienne Vogt, CNN, 11 May 2023
• 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
• Another group of some 2,500 migrants has encamped in an improvised shelter in Mexico City.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 15 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024