bivouac

Kovacs said lifting Dickey will likely take several days, and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so that he and rescue teams can rest.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2023

"Many, we understand, are provided with or are providing themselves with tents and intend to bivouac in the fields."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022

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.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2020

I carried no rope, no tent or bivouac gear, no hardware save my ice axes.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

She has taken the worn tapestry of the war novel and turned it inside out, exposing the original colors and throwing the battles and bivouacs into stark relief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

A rational leader would call off the attack, send the troops back to their bivouacs, and send envoys to the negotiating tables, where many other games can be played.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2022

Out in the Philippines, where Ferdinand Marcos had been freshly deposed, Dye had the troupe digging their own bivouacs and going out on night raids.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2020

After stopping to rest at the final of five bivouacs established at intervals along the way, Mr. Westhauser was lifted to safety through the final, narrow shaft to the surface of the mountain.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2014

In English, that meant: To all units: Japanese are booby-trapping personnel equipment, installations, and bivouacs.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Kamil Szymanski, the CEO of G2A Arena where scores of G.I.s have bivouacked, said his company is happy to do its part in difficult times and will “work tirelessly to support the 82nd Airborne Division.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Regime forces were bivouacked on the outskirts, and locals were afraid to talk.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

Kansas volunteers bivouacked in the East Room to protect Abraham Lincoln, and the president tested rifles on the grounds around the house.

From Time ● Aug. 2, 2017

About 20 soldiers from an infantry unit known as the Ardennes Battalion of Hunters were bivouacked at a police station in Ganshoren, a neighborhood north of Molenbeek.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2015

Then . he would have told about the night they bivouacked in a field along the Song Tra Bong.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

I knew the signs of a bivouacking militia and something less sinister.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017

We'd be entirely self-supported, schlepping all our own gear and bivouacking in the saddles between the peaks.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 10, 2015

Somehow they managed to keep moving until after dark, finally bivouacking on a thin ledge.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 14, 2015

On indie screens, Restrepo, the Sebastian Junger doc about bivouacking with an Army troop in Afghanistan, earned $30,453 on two screens, giving it the highest per-screen average of any new movie.

From Time ● Jun. 27, 2010

The seventy thousand troops now in the Islands were no longer marching and bivouacking as armies, but, "split in a thousand detachments," were scattered into garrisons from the China Sea to the Pacific.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck