bivouac

Example Sentences

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They also allege he started out two hours too late and had failed to take "enough emergency bivouac equipment".

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.

From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2023

The whole population was busy all night, and the streets are now like a bivouac with sleeping men.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2021

After getting orders to establish a bivouac site near Airfield 1, Willhite said he then knew the command had come down to settle in for the long haul.

From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2020

At dark, word came forward to go into bivouac.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara