encamps
- present tense form of encamp (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Every four years, news organizations commit millions of dollars to the care and feeding of the journalistic army — 15,000 strong this time around — that encamps in the two host cities.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2012
When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts.
From Time Magazine Archive
It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Tatar horde called Sirtof likewise encamps on the lands of the Kalmucks, within sixty miles of Astrakhan, on the road to Kisliar.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
Cold that encamps itself in the empty fire-place, and blows through the broken door, and paralyzes the naked limbs.
From Humanity in the City by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
