Examples of decamp in a Sentence
Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2024
California has made very little progress, if any, on narrowing its shortage of housing, its levels of homelessness and poverty remain among the nation’s highest, and its population is declining as hundreds of thousands of Californians decamp for other states.
—Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
The study notes that the majority of those decamping for other regions are motivated by affordability, not air quality woes.
—Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
Although Parrot Jungle decamped for Watson Island in 2002, this quaint park hasn’t lost its fan base.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, decamped to California.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
In the tech world, some of the venture capitalists and founders who decamped to Miami and Austin, hailing them as the new hotspots for startups, are slinking back to San Francisco, enticed by the local boom in artificial intelligence companies.
—Kate Talerico, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2024
Designers including Harris Reed, Charlie Casely-Hayford, and Molly Goddard brushed shoulders with It-Brits like Jourdan Dunn and Alexa Chung along with runway regulars who had decamped to London for the occasion, from Precious Lee to Kaia Gerber.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2024
Featured in the exhibition, Du was one of the first wave of designers to decamp to the fashion capital.
—Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
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Word History
French décamper, from Middle French descamper, from des- de- + camper to camp
1676, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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