bivouac
noun
a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
was bivouacking
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past progressiveof bivouac.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was in Neuera-Kalawa; I was bivouacking on the bank of a river, and had been kept out so late that I did not get to my tent until between 9 and 10 at night.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent
It was on the night of the twentieth of April, and our whole disposable force, some seven hundred men, was bivouacking in and about an island of sycamores.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
The fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge of the forest.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
I am on my way east, with important despatches; and I was bivouacking with my three followers in the wood, when I was attracted by the singing.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The night before the battle of Vittoria I was bivouacking in the open country.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
