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

Now is the time, as we shall soon be striking camp, and I might see you no more. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

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

All recruits should be drilled in the routine of pitching and striking camp.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

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