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
It passes the great caravan once every two or three days, and then encamps till the latter comes up, when they supply the Pasha's suite with provisions.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
United with his baggage-column, Friedrich proceeds northeastward; crosses Spree still northward or northeastward; encamps there, in the dark hours of Tuesday; no Daun heeding him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
