encamp
verb (used without object)
to settle or lodge in a camp.
were 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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Last winter, while we were encamping on the Galician frontier, I happened to be out in the open field the whole of one night, and got in the way of a villainous Russian blast.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
Went greatest of armies,—the footmen were strengthened35 With chosen bands,—till in foreign land The fighters-with-darts upón the Danube's Bank were encamping, the brave in heart, 'Round the welling of waters, with tumult of host.
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by James Mercer Garnett
Once when they were encamping in a cave in a valley, a downpour of rain came, filled the valley, and threatened to carry away themselves and their camp.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
At their feet was a heavy jungle, and beyond a plain and a small hill, where a large body of insurgents were encamping.
From The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer
We were encamping in the primitive woods, by a little trout lake which the mountain carried high on his hip, like a soldier's canteen.
From Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs
