decamped; decamping; decamps
Examples of decamp in a Sentence
She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
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Some of those clans have since dwindled or decamped for more populated areas.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Mid-meal, my sister and cousins, tired of all that sitting, would decamp to my grandmother’s room with its two single beds spaced at just the right distance for leaping between.
—Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Countdown to Cortina For the Olympic games spectator decamping to the Dolomites, neutral colors and rich materials are the way to go.
—Kerry Pieri, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
Quinn had already decamped to Hawaii and mapped out a plan to diagnose what went wrong.
—Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Mid-meal, my sister and cousins, tired of all that sitting, would decamp to my grandmother’s room with its two single beds spaced at just the right distance for leaping between.
—Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Countdown to Cortina For the Olympic games spectator decamping to the Dolomites, neutral colors and rich materials are the way to go.
—Kerry Pieri, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
Quinn had already decamped to Hawaii and mapped out a plan to diagnose what went wrong.
—Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decamp. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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