How to Use set up camp in a Sentence
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Their goal was to set up camp for the night on the other side.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
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Only three television crews had set up camp across the street.
—Riley Bunch, ajc, 4 May 2023
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Usually, the people who are swept set up camp again elsewhere.
—Andy Newman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
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The re-enactors set up camp in period tents for the weekend, eating food cooked over open fires.
—al, 6 Mar. 2023
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The next day, friends set up camp on the back river side of Tybee Island Beach.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
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With a tidy cluster of mid-tier chain hotels at its outskirts, Elkhart is a logical spot to set up camp.
—Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021
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The proposal would require unsheltered people to set up camp at least 50 feet away from these places.
—Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020
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Protesters quickly set up camp within the forest and began to entrench.
—Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
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Want to set up camp on a beach that’s all your own, dip your toes in clear blue, bathtub-temperature water, and catch a fish and turn it into tacos?
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2021
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When, a few weeks later, Atlanta was hit by an unexpected snow storm, James set up camp at Daron's house.
—CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
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The paddlers quickly pulled off to the right bank, secured the canoes and set up camp, while a scouting party hacked their way through the brush to reconnoiter.
—Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
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In addition to the hotel, police searched an area of Maiori’s small port where production of the film has set up camp, the newspaper reported.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
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As the jury deliberated for seven days, reporters continued to arrive early but just to get a ticket and then set up camp on the hallway of the fifth floor.
—Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
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Hundreds of women have set up camp outside the White House, demanding answers, suspecting a cover-up.
—Devon Maloney, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
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Hundreds of unsheltered people have set up camp around 12th Avenue and Jefferson Street.
—Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
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Another towed a small camper, while still others slept in their cars or set up camp in tents facing the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, which is visible from the Earthship’s front porch.
—NBC News, 18 July 2021
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Thousands had set up camp since early Tuesday morning at the Obelisk, the iconic Buenos Aires landmark that is the traditional site of celebrations.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
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Earlier on July 9, 10 Canadian mountain climbers, fresh off an ascent of nearby Mount Fairweather, wearily set up camp on the shores of the bay.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
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In June, a persistent high-pressure system—a kind of swirling atmospheric current often associated with clear, sunny skies—set up camp over the Siberian Arctic.
—Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 31 July 2020
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Troops and paramilitary forces also sealed off the area around the military headquarters where thousands of protesters set up camp in April 2019, forcing the military to remove al-Bashir.
—The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 14 Nov. 2021
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As Lula's inauguration approached, Bolsonaro supporters set up camp outside of Brasília's main military compound, urging the armed forces to restore Bolsonaro to power.
—David Faris, The Week, 22 Jan. 2023
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That Monday, reporters from multiple continents and every major news network set up camp outside the seventeen-story Art Deco courthouse in lower Manhattan, where criminal defendants in the borough are taken for arraignment.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
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