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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Throughout the year, a furious Musk decamped from his incorporation in Delaware.
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The bottom line Much of the awards-industrial complex, including yours truly, has just returned home from Telluride, and is laying low today and tomorrow before decamping to Canada for the 50th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
More than fifty Democratic legislators decamped on August 3rd in what is known as a quorum break.
—Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
The bottom line Much of the awards-industrial complex, including yours truly, has just returned home from Telluride, and is laying low today and tomorrow before decamping to Canada for the 50th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
The Domain functions as an expansive outdoor classroom for environmental science courses as professors regularly decamp to hiking trails for their lectures and students learn the different shapes of the leaves while walking beneath them.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
More than fifty Democratic legislators decamped on August 3rd in what is known as a quorum break.
—Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Decamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decamp. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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