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Examples of decamp in a Sentence
She took the papers and decamped.
He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke.
Recent Examples of decamp from the Web
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Patients decamped from the cities in the late 1800s to the 1920s to seek a cure in the balsam-scented mountain air.
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Faiyaz and his team decamped to the Dominican Republic in summer 2017 to work on it.
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After losing in the national championship game last season, before the start of another year, the Gonzaga basketball team decamped last fall to a lake near their campus in eastern Washington.
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After Paramount decamped for Hollywood, the Army produced training films at the complex from the early 1940s until 1970.
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After Kathy Griffin and Kelly Osbourne both decamped from Fashion Police, E! has postponed the show's return until September.
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Lugar fell to a Tea Party challenger in Indiana’s 2012 Republican primary; Hagel decamped from the Republican Party altogether, joining Obama’s White House as defense secretary the following year.
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The latter three, who have since become the holy trinity of the contemporary L.A. scene, decamped from Rosamund Felsen Gallery to form the hometown core of his roster for nearly a decade.
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This being an era when cutting back, for the middle-class Millers, meant renting out their Torquay house and decamping to Paris and Cairo.
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Origin and Etymology of decamp
French décamper, from Middle French descamper, from des- de- + camper to camp
DECAMP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of decamp for English Language Learners
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: to leave a place suddenly and secretly
DECAMP Defined for Kids
Definition of decamp for Students
decamped;
decamping
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: to pack up gear and leave a camp
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: to go away suddenly
As soon as school was out, we decamped to the beach.
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