break camp

Frequency: 5.84.1 per million words

to pack up equipment and leave a campsite

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Examples (10)

  • We broke camp early the next morning and continued our journey.
  • The soldiers have orders to break camp at dawn.
  • Let's break camp now before the rain starts.
  • After a week in the mountains, the climbers were reluctant to break camp.
  • The archaeological team will break camp once the excavation is complete.
  • They had to break camp in a hurry as the storm approached.
  • What time are we breaking camp tomorrow?
  • By the time the sun rose, we had already broken camp.
  • The scouts learned how to efficiently set up and break camp.
  • The festival-goers began to break camp on the final day.