Sentence examples for decamp from inspiring English sources

"decamp" is a real word and it is used in written English.
It is a verb meaning to leave a place suddenly and usually secretly. For example, "The thieves decamped quickly, leaving nothing behind."

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decamp

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To break up camp and move on.

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One of his first major moves was to decamp from the Express's Fleet Street headquarters, known as the Black Lubyanka, and set up shop - minus some 1,300 employees - on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge.

Comporta is the beach retreat of choice for Lisbon's fashion and media set, who decamp here at weekends to hang out in chichi fisherman's cottages just an hour's drive from the city.

AS TONY BLAIR prepares to decamp with his family to the secluded peace of rural Gascony, he knows that the next few months could be the most exacting of his premiership.

And he threatened to decamp for America, a much bigger defence market, unless the government started treating BAE like a national champion and guaranteeing it the lion's share of future contracts.

In 2011, with Twitter threatening to decamp to Silicon Valley, Edwin Lee, San Francisco's mayor, pushed through a payroll-tax holiday for companies in mid-Market.

Mr Clegg launched the policy on a visit to St Ives in Cornwall a region to which many wealthy Britons decamp for their summer holidays.

It ran till 1940, when the Nazis arrived again and Ophuls had to decamp for Hollywood.This refugee tale of narrow escapes, lucky breaks, recognition and new insecurities is typical of the exiles from the world of art and science who fled Nazism.

The present system saps Malaysia's competitiveness, and has driven some frustrated members of the minorities mainly Chinese and Indians to decamp to more meritocratic countries.

"Goal-oriented" institutions, such as the National Institutes of Health, found it hard to work with him, and he with them, but he would cheerfully decamp to freer places, such as the Institute for Cancer Research, which let him roam until relevance emerged from his roamings.

So said Martin Roth, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, at the recent Berlin opening of an outstanding retrospective of Mr Bowie's life, which was a big hit in London last year.What exactly persuaded Mr Bowie to decamp to the city in 1976?

And while the population and agricultural output of Brazil's vast interior have soared since the capital was moved there, this would most likely have happened even if Brasília had never been built.Seoul-lessFor all the plans to end Seoul's domination of the rest of the country, it seems unlikely that South Korea's big industrial and financial firms will decamp to the new capital.

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