encamp
verb (used without object)
to settle or lodge in a camp.
was encamping
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past progressiveof encamp.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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On the next day he marched steadily forward, passed some difficult country, and late in the day heard that Hiketas had just reached the little fortress and was encamping before it.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
The Union army was encamping a few miles from C——, in North Carolina.
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
