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Example sentences for "make camp"

  • The natives very obligingly helped to make camp in the usual way.

  • I then descended to the prahu, and desiring to make camp at a sufficient distance to keep my men in a tranquil state of mind, we went about two kilometres down the river and found a convenient camping-place in the jungle.

  • It followed a diagonal course, the top of it being some rods from the shelf where they were to make camp.

  • Do you know of a good place to make camp for a little while?

  • Harriet, flushed of face, eyes sparkling, "that is the way we make camp.

  • We all, white and black, set to work to make camp.

  • Here we left the men to make camp, and ourselves climbed a big mountain on the other side.

  • Where are we going to make camp, Professor?

  • I don't want to go back to the point where we first started to make camp.

  • Back to the point where we first decided to make camp.

  • My plan is to make camp out in the hollow; then we will place a guard over the camp, keeping a sharp watch all through the night.

  • Make camp to-morrow afternoon wherever you think best, only do not let us get past your camping place.

  • All we desire is to take the coach into the mountains, make camp, and come back in the early morning.

  • Mr. Fairweather, where is there a good place for us to make camp to-night?

  • Twilight was upon them ere they halted to make camp in a dense thicket of spruce, the tops of which they could not see in the faint light, but later on the moon came up, silvering the tops of the pines.

  • The Indian, having been told where they would make camp, had shouldered his pack and strode off through the forest, soon disappearing under the giant trees of the Maine Wilderness.

  • Later in the day Vaughn came to the spot where Tad and Stacy had halted, intending to make camp.

  • And we never stopped finally to make camp but he lifted up his voice.

  • So here was another disappointment, for camp must be made now lest there be no chance to make camp at all.

  • Of course we're going to make camp if that's the case.

  • I guess the pigs' feet will last you until we make camp.

  • So we decided to make camp in the valley.

  • The Indians are going to make camp," Jim announced.

  • It did not take us long to make camp, for we were experienced mountaineers by this time.

  • But when they rested at noon, or in the early evening stopped to make camp, Roger would be denied his pleasure no longer, but started to stalk some of the ever present birds.

  • Besides, if that red spy did follow at our heels, as soon as he saw that we meant to make camp here he must have marked the spot well in his mind, and then slipped off to hunt up the rest of the party.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make camp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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