as in campsite
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins
soldiers setting up a bivouac by the stream
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as in to tent
to live in a camp or the outdoors
the army bivouacked for the night by the lake
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as in to house
to provide with living quarters or shelter
survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement
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Examples of bivouac in a Sentence
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Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 5 May 2024
Whatever the future of downtown may hold, the present offers a grimmer form of walkable density: a growing city of tents and cardboard bivouacs lined up along Skid Row.
—Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
The team carrying the stretcher had passed a bivouac site about 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, below the surface on Sunday, the European Cave Rescue Association said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2023
Kovacs said lifting Dickey could take several days and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so the rescue personnel and Dickey can rest.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
Under the proposal, the cost of camping in both traditional campgrounds, like Watchman, and in wilderness areas, like a bivouac along a rock wall, would go up in most instances.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.
—Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
There is a name for any alcohol-free bivouac of sportsmen.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Oct. 2020
When the bivouac is fully formed and the recording has ended, the team remove the ants using the vacuum cleaner and release them again into the chamber where the nest-building process begins all over again.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Thousands of those fighters are now bivouacked in Belarus.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
Mazzei’s vineyards showed promise but, according to one legend, were destroyed during the Revolutionary War by rambunctious Hessian prisoners bivouacked there.
—Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
At the end of Pine Creek Canyon Road, nearly 800 girls are bivouacked at Camp Lo-Mia, a retreat for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
—AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
During the Civil War, troops bivouacked in farm fields.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
At night, the POWs bivouacked in fields
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
Kansas volunteers bivouacked in the East Room to protect Abraham Lincoln, and the president tested rifles on the grounds around the house.
—Daniel S. Levy / Time Books, Time, 2 Aug. 2017
Noun
Images of parrots and bivouacs, acid-green leaves and misty forests filled my head.
—Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 5 May 2024
Whatever the future of downtown may hold, the present offers a grimmer form of walkable density: a growing city of tents and cardboard bivouacs lined up along Skid Row.
—Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
The team carrying the stretcher had passed a bivouac site about 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, below the surface on Sunday, the European Cave Rescue Association said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2023
Kovacs said lifting Dickey could take several days and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so the rescue personnel and Dickey can rest.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
Under the proposal, the cost of camping in both traditional campgrounds, like Watchman, and in wilderness areas, like a bivouac along a rock wall, would go up in most instances.
—Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.
—Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
There is a name for any alcohol-free bivouac of sportsmen.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Oct. 2020
When the bivouac is fully formed and the recording has ended, the team remove the ants using the vacuum cleaner and release them again into the chamber where the nest-building process begins all over again.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
Verb
Maoist rebels bivouacked in valleys beyond Kathmandu, promising to topple the monarch and his parliamentary cronies, and install an egalitarian people’s republic.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Thousands of those fighters are now bivouacked in Belarus.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
Mazzei’s vineyards showed promise but, according to one legend, were destroyed during the Revolutionary War by rambunctious Hessian prisoners bivouacked there.
—Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
At the end of Pine Creek Canyon Road, nearly 800 girls are bivouacked at Camp Lo-Mia, a retreat for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
—AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
During the Civil War, troops bivouacked in farm fields.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
At night, the POWs bivouacked in fields
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
Kansas volunteers bivouacked in the East Room to protect Abraham Lincoln, and the president tested rifles on the grounds around the house.
—Daniel S. Levy / Time Books, Time, 2 Aug. 2017
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