Cherie Lunghi

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

English Actress

William Henry Ashley

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

American Businessman

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

Mercy Otis Warren

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

American Playwright

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Barbara Ehrenreich

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

American Writer

Encamp means staying somewhere briefly, much like camping out.

Temporary Stay

Use 'encamp' when referring to setting up outdoors, not inside buildings.

Outdoor Context

'Encamp' is usually more informal and can suggest a spontaneous decision to stay outdoors.

Informal Use

Encamp in a military context can suggest a planned, strategic position for troops.

Military Tone

Military encampment often indicates setting up defenses or preparing for combat.

Defense Position

In military use, to encamp might suggest a longer stay than civilian camping.

Longer Duration

 thousands of families looking for work began flocking to the site. The earliest arrivals lived in a makeshift encampment called Ragtown. With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers,

Blood, concrete, and...

 Really, the entire encampment of Burning Man could be thought of as one giant interactive art installation driven by the participation of everyone in it. One thing that sets this work aside from the commercial art world is that anyone who makes work can show it.

Why art thrives at...

 It was here that Homer described the Greek encampment at the mouth of the Scamander river. And it was here that fate brought Frank into contact with a journalist and geologist named Charles Maclaren. Locals and travelers had long speculated

Did ancient Troy really...

 Once again, the fat of the land goes to wasichu. A date I believe to be the most important in this slide show. This is the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre. On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek,

Aaron Huey: America's...

 while the trial was still underway. Many have debated whether the rape influenced her work. Artemisia revisited the subject of Judith repeatedly. One painting shows Judith and her maidservant trying to leave the enemy encampment.

Artemisia Gentileschi:...

 Ranchers once again the fat of the land goes to wash you to 1890 a date I believe to be the most important in this slideshow this is the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29th US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment

America's native...

 done is nibbled either side of the main mid-rib of this leaf so the leaf is then folded almost like canvas over the ridge pole of a ridge tent and it's folded under its own weight to provide the perfect little encampment

Bizarre Bat Moments PIPE...

 remote location and getting five tonnes of equipment there requires helicopter delivery this trip required a nearly three-week long encampment but it takes special diving skills to go so deep and for so long

Record Cave Dive Leaves...

 Around the world, we present refugees with an almost impossible choice between three encampment, urban destitution and dangerous journeys. For refugees, that choice is the global refugee regime today.

Our refugee system is...

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