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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
• The next day, friends set up camp on the back river side of Tybee Island Beach.
  — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• Only three television crews had set up camp across the street.
  — Riley Bunch, ajc, 4 May 2023
• Usually, the people who are swept set up camp again elsewhere.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• 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
• The re-enactors set up camp in period tents for the weekend, eating food cooked over open fires.
  — al, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Protesters quickly set up camp within the forest and began to entrench.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Hundreds of unsheltered people have set up camp around 12th Avenue and Jefferson Street.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• Hundreds of women have set up camp outside the White House, demanding answers, suspecting a cover-up.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024