bivouac

Earlier on Wednesday, the team issued an update saying the men's backpacks and equipment were found during a search of a bivouac hut they are believed to have sheltered at.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

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

With the bivouac established, Willhite’s lieutenant told him to go help a corpsman struggling to load dead Marines onto a truck to take to the cemetery.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2020

In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Like modern-day companies that merge and re-emerge or fold, some of these schools went under quickly, or moved their bivouacs, or combined forces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

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

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

He celebrates the joys of doing nothing, but skates, canoes, climbs the 6,000ft peaks behind his cabin, bivouacs on a cliff-ledge and walks 81 miles over three days pulling a sledge.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

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

Jawad and Shukria’s group had to spend a night bivouacked in the open, huddling together.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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

The Romans bivouacked next to the strawberry fields, where they insisted on building their standard field camp.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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 aspect of the cottage, too, proclaimed that its inhabitants were very poor folk—not at all the sort to tell tales upon a casual tramp if they spied him bivouacking upon holy ground.

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