make camp

Example Sentences

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Except that when they make camp that night, there are 11 of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The team rushed to land all the cargo on the ice and make camp before the forecasted blizzard.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2024

Others said they would make camp in a more remote part of the District, hoping they might then be left alone.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

He said the act did not "confer on the public any right to pitch tents or otherwise make camp overnight on Dartmoor Commons. Any such camping requires the consent of the landowner."

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

I'm about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands in front of me.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins