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.