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Example sentences for "bivouaced"

Lexicographically close words:
bivalent; bivalve; bivalved; bivalves; bivouac; bivouacked; bivouacking; bivouacs; biz; bizarre
  1. English homes were sacked, French soldiers bivouaced in Sussex pastures, and the ripening corn was trodden down and stained with blood.

  2. Those who went to Effingham joined at midnight the column who had made an unsuccessful effort to recover Leatherhead, and then bivouaced in Oldlands Copse.

  3. The forces fell back, carrying their wounded and bivouaced at Boyds Point under the protection of gunboats.

  4. G bivouaced in the oak woods with an abundance of leaves for bedding.

  5. The afternoon of the 25th camp was broken and the corps moved down to Edwards Ferry, on the Potomac, and bivouaced in a fine field of clover.

  6. December 10th, after a tramp through snow and mud a distance of five miles, the troops bivouaced at Poorhouse Station.

  7. In the afternoon the destination of the 11th Corps was reached, and the men were bivouaced nearly in position for battle.

  8. Coffee was boiled in turbid water from the stream and the boys bivouaced under the stars.

  9. After dark the men bivouaced in a field of corn-stubble, rain falling and small rivulets running down between the rows.

  10. As they drew within easy distance Sir Richard recognized them to be a part of the company of knights who had bivouaced around the pavilion of purple and black.

  11. And the great army that is bivouaced here to-night in Scotland is like unto an avenging Juggernaut with none to guide its course.

  12. Moved up Chailak Dere and bivouaced between Bauchop's Hill and Little Table Top--Rose Hill.

  13. That night landed at Williams' Pier and bivouaced in Waterfall Gully.

  14. We bivouaced about midnight after a hard march of fifteen miles.

  15. Bardstown, the battery passed through Springfield, just as citizens were leaving church on the 5th Sunday, and on the 6th passed through Perryville and on to within a mile of Harrodsburg and bivouaced for the night.

  16. Night came on and firing ceased; the rebels were behind their entrenchments, and our army bivouaced for the night.

  17. Both armies bivouaced on the bloody field, within a few rods of each other.

  18. As a rule we were not billeted in the houses, but bivouaced in fields, if possible beside a river, where the men were able to bathe and play games.

  19. Here we remained carrying out training until the 5th October, when we once more marched up and bivouaced at Beaucourt, going into the front line on the 11th, which by this time had been advanced as far as Le Sars.

  20. At Albert we once more bivouaced in a field on the south side of the main road, about one mile west of the town.

  21. Leaving there, we bivouaced for a night in the Foret de Charmes and entrained at Charmes next morning, August 7th, at dawn.

  22. Twenty kilometres of hiking brought us to the Arcis le Ponsart Forest, where we bivouaced for a day.

  23. When we reached the camps of the enemy, where they had bivouaced the night before, the scene beggared description.

  24. The troops were all placed in position by nightfall, bivouaced for the night on the field, and slept on their arms to guard against any night attack.

  25. We bivouaced during the night just in rear of the battle ground.

  26. About midnight we crossed over the sluggish stream of Chickamauga, at Alexander's Bridge, and bivouaced near Hood's Division, already encamped.

  27. Some took the dirt road, while others kept the railroad track, and in this way all organizations were lost sight of, but at night they collected together in regiments, joined the wagon trains, and bivouaced for the night.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bivouaced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.