Noun soldiers setting up a bivouac by the stream Verb the army bivouacked for the night by the lake survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

The governor on Sunday announced measures intended to prepare for a wave of patients, including setting up temporary hospitals in three New York City suburbs and erecting a massive medical bivouac in the Jacob Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side. Jesse Mckinley, New York Times, "Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: Region Is Now an Epicenter of Global Pandemic," 22 Mar. 2020

Days, even weeks, in a tent or a bivouac, the hours empty of all but numbing chores and the howling of the wind. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, "Survivor’s Guilt in the Mountains," 24 Feb. 2020

This is where our team met up to start missions or head to the bivouac to make supplies. Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, "Preview: ‘Ghost Recon Breakpoint’ refines co-op experience with the right group," 3 Sep. 2019

Right, competitors check their bikes at the bivouac after the end of the Stage 3. Marc Martin, latimes.com, "Titan Desert 2018 | A 385-mile ride through the Moroccan desert," 3 May 2018

Right, competitors check their bikes at the bivouac after the end of the Stage 3. Marc Martin, latimes.com, "Titan Desert 2018 | A 385-mile ride through the Moroccan desert," 3 May 2018

Parts of the facility, more accustomed to housing oil and gas trade shows than an exhausted bivouac, smelled of urine and pet feces. Russell Gold, WSJ, "Harvey Makes Landfall in Louisiana as Waters Keep Rising in Texas," 30 Aug. 2017

This marker commemorates the last Confederate bivouac north of the Mason-Dixon Line, in . Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, "Can you guess where these Confederate monuments were built?," 18 Aug. 2017

To gain admission at that time, a young climber had to demonstrate technical prowess, sleep outside on a mountain ledge (known as a bivouac), pass written tests and show a command of mountaineering history, art and literature. Michael Powell, New York Times, "Scaling the World’s Most Lethal Mountain, in the Dead of Winter," 9 May 2017

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April. New York Times, "Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good.," 14 Mar. 2020

At the end of Pine Creek Canyon Road, nearly 800 girls are bivouacked at Camp Lo-Mia, a retreat for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. AZCentral.com, "At the base of a canyon, every fire season can be a gamble," 23 July 2019

During the Civil War, troops bivouacked in farm fields. John Kelly, Washington Post, "Farm team: Imagine grapes on the Mall and corn across the District," 1 May 2018

Kansas volunteers bivouacked in the East Room to protect Abraham Lincoln, and the president tested rifles on the grounds around the house. Daniel S. Levy / Time Books, Time, "Is the White House a 'Dump'? It Used to Be," 2 Aug. 2017

The 82nd Airborne was bivouacked in the Ardennes Forest, vastly outmanned and outgunned against a surprise German counteroffensive in the snow and ice. Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, "Paul Molitor drafts a favorite in-law to raise Opening Day flags," 3 Apr. 2017

World War I troops gave tips on bayonet thrusts, and a company of infantry in War of 1812 gear bivouacked not far from a blacksmith and an impressive array of medieval swords. Andrew Roth, Washington Post, "Tens of thousands rally across Russia in protests against corruption," 12 June 2017

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