decamp
verb (used without object)
to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground.
was decamping
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past progressiveof decamp.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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When LePage left office in 2019, prevented from seeking a third consecutive term by the Maine Constitution, he declared he was decamping for Florida, where the taxes were lower, and leaving politics behind.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
Tristan Biles, a technology worker who had been working remotely since Halloween from a condo on the edge of a ski slope, was decamping to San Diego to meet his girlfriend.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
As he fielded queries after the reading, he mentioned that he was decamping to teach at something called the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in, of all places, Boulder, Colo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
Yesterday we learned that New York Times economics correspondent Peter Goodman was decamping for HuffPo.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2011
Day break disclosed the cause: the enemy was decamping.
From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
