encamp
verb (used without object)
to settle or lodge in a camp.
encamps
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present tense formof encamp (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Wherefore, not thinking it convenient to abide long so near them, away marches the army, and encamps in the fields.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
This is a story that I heard from the King of the Numidians, who with his tattered retinue encamps behind the peat-ricks.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
