bivouac
noun
a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
are bivouacking
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present progressiveof bivouac.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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We are bivouacking in the casemates of the fort.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
In the sable land of Hades all departed generations are bivouacking in one vast army.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
By heavens! gentlemen," he cried, "a little later and you'd have had to sleep beneath the stars, like a good many more of your compatriots who are bivouacking on the other side of Andernach.
From The Red Inn by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The shepherds are bivouacking on the hills of Bethlehem when the angel appears to them.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
I am writing this in the woods, where we are bivouacking for the night.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
