bivouac
noun
a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
were 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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For almost five days now I have been, as it were, bivouacking.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Yis, bes' donkey in Luxor—' and Tom remembered that he had a ride of an hour or so before he could reach the Temple of Deir El-Bahri where his friends were bivouacking.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood
No soldiers were bivouacking in the streets that night.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
From his new position, less than four hundred yards from the spot where the unsuspecting Huns were bivouacking, Wilmshurst could keep them under close observation.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater
The same day, a little before nightfall, Baron Vigneau strode across the greensward to the spot where his own followers were bivouacking beneath some huge beech trees.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
