bivouac

How To Use bivouac In A Sentence

• To emphasize the cold, inhospitable emptiness of the West, O'Sullivan had to aim his lens elsewhere than at the roads and bivouacs just out of camera range. Western Development
• Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong. Country diary
• The ants set up temporary camps, called bivouacs, and don't always venture forth to eat on a given day. Ars Technica
• They captured him, but left most of his baggage, together with a lot of papers, scattered about the bivouac where they had captured him.
• But I was afraid of bivouacking; we were soaking wet, had no sleeping bags, nothing dry or warm to change into and we were still at a high elevation. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3
• The children made a bivouac at the bottom of the garden with some poles and an old blanket.
• By night the protesters retire to their bivouacs, presumably to read some self-improving literature. Railing Against ... Whatever
• Mayor Art Agnos invited the homeless to bivouac in Civic Center for more than a year while he chewed on the problem.
• This is not a sedentary fishing, there are no bivouacs or campsites involved with this style of fishing.
• The combat raged without intermission until nightfall: three cannon shots, discharged at the extremity of either line, then marked as if preconcertedly, the pause of battle; and both armies bivouacked exactly where the morning light had found them. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte