ENCAMPMENT in a Sentence
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39 example sentences for ENCAMPMENT, such as:
1. The soldiers are encamped in the forest.
2. After which Uncas and I pushed for the other encampment as was agreed.
3. The whole encampment, in a moment, became a scene of the most violent bustle and commotion.
4. The news spread from mouth to mouth, until the whole encampment became powerfully agitated.
5. Many people are living in encampments around the city with no electricity or running water.
2. After which Uncas and I pushed for the other encampment as was agreed.
3. The whole encampment, in a moment, became a scene of the most violent bustle and commotion.
4. The news spread from mouth to mouth, until the whole encampment became powerfully agitated.
5. Many people are living in encampments around the city with no electricity or running water.
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Meanings and Examples of ENCAMPMENT
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encampment
n. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
n. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 Just as she was preparing to start walking the long way across town to the Yankee encampment, a battered wagon appeared.
2 Half a mile from town, in a hollow between hazelnut bushes and a brook, she discovered a gipsy encampment: a covered wagon, a tent, a bunch of pegged-out horses.
3 By the frequency with which the few speakers pointed in the direction of the encampment of Webb, it was apparent they dreaded the approach of danger from that quarter.
4 Just then a figure was seen to approach the edge of the rampart, where it stood, apparently contemplating in its turn the distant tents of the French encampment.
5 I scent the Hurons," he said, speaking to the Mohicans; "yonder is open sky, through the treetops, and we are getting too nigh their encampment.
6 On their arrival at the encampment of his people, Magua, in obedience to a policy seldom departed from, separated his prisoners.
7 It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of the more instructed whites, guarded by the presence of armed men.
8 Unable to command himself any longer, the youth broke from the place, and presently stood in the center of a disorderly throng, that included nearly everything having life, within the limits of the encampment.
9 The whole encampment, in a moment, became a scene of the most violent bustle and commotion.
10 After which Uncas and I pushed for the other encampment as was agreed.
11 Women and children ran to and fro; and, in short, the whole encampment exhibited another scene of wild and savage confusion.
12 The news spread from mouth to mouth, until the whole encampment became powerfully agitated.
13 He, therefore, left the lodge and walked silently forth to the place, in front of the encampment, whither the warriors were already beginning to collect.
14 When these acts of affection and respect were performed, the chiefs drew back again to their several places, and silence reigned in the whole encampment.
15 During the momentous hour that succeeded, the encampment resembled a hive of troubled bees, who only awaited the appearance and example of their leader to take some distant and momentous flight.
Example Sentence:
1 The soldiers are encamped in the forest.
2 These days, those living in ‘The Jungle', as the squalid encampments on the edge of Calais are known, come from conflicts that rage beyond Europe's borders.
3 Many people are living in encampments around the city with no electricity or running water.