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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Just as we were encamping at night, my sentinel informed us that some Indians were coming at full speed upon our trail or track.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles
I had heard from the officers that in the willow woods of the Theiss, in the neighbourhood of the 'Szikra' inn, some Hungarian guerillas were encamping.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
His guards, who were encamping in the plain in wide circles around him, could distinctly see him, partially illuminated by the camp-fire.
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
I immediately took several men forward with muskets to keep the tribes off while our party were encamping, but to no purpose.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
But while they were encamping in the night, there was a heavy fall of snow, and in the morning it was resolved to billet out the different regiments, with their generals, throughout the villages.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
