striking camp
Example Sentences
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Recently it put up temporary fencing around parts of the library to prevent people from striking camp there.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017
Seeing some men striking camp near by we asked them.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
Dick set about the business of striking camp, and for a time was fully occupied.
From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick
I had camped over night on low land, among heavy timber, but soon after striking camp, came to a place where the timber was scattering and the land had a gentle rise to the westward.
From Woodcraft by Sears, George Washington
After striking camp I noticed that a tire was gone from one of the wagons.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry
