BIVOUAC in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for BIVOUAC, such as:
1. They established their bivouac beyond Rossomme.
2. Many have died these last days on the road or at the bivouacs.
3. While in bivouac, we spent the night in our sleeping bags under the stars.
4. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops.
5. He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sentinels.
2. Many have died these last days on the road or at the bivouacs.
3. While in bivouac, we spent the night in our sleeping bags under the stars.
4. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops.
5. He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sentinels.
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Meanings and Examples of BIVOUAC
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bivouac
n. temporary encampment; a site where people on holiday can pitch tent
Classic Sentence:
1 They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou.
2 Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops.
3 They established their bivouac beyond Rossomme.
4 He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sentinels.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
Context Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
5 In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring.
6 The huge, endless bivouac that had previously resounded with the crackling of campfires and the voices of many men had grown quiet, the red campfires were growing paler and dying down.
7 The fires and shouting in the enemy's army were occasioned by the fact that while Napoleon's proclamation was being read to the troops the Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs.
8 Many have died these last days on the road or at the bivouacs.
9 In them there were no fine descriptive pages of bivouacs and charges such as Darcy Meade wrote his parents or poor Dallas McLure had written his old-maid sisters, Misses Faith and Hope.
10 There are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the depths of the thickets.
Example Sentence:
1 While in bivouac, we spent the night in our sleeping bags under the stars.