set up camp

phrase

: to prepare an area for sleeping outside

The hikers set up camp just before sunset.

Examples of set up camp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With each encampment sweep — in NoMa, on New Jersey Avenue, outside Union Square — more people would trudge into McPherson Square and set up camp. — Kyle Swenson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023

Poland has massed thousands of troops on its border with Belarus to keep out Middle Eastern migrants who have set up camp there, as Western officials accuse Belarus’s leader of intentionally trying to create a new migrant crisis in Europe. — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021

Street vendors who set up camp outside the Los Angeles City College Swap Meet say they’re being harassed and displaced by new owner Phillip Dane. — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021

Civil War reenactors will set up camp in Central Park, fire muskets and drill just as their predecessors did 155 years ago. — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021

Rhymes for set up camp

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