set up camp
idiom
: to prepare an area for sleeping outside
The hikers set up camp just before sunset.
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During a stay in Lincolnshire, where the show set up camp to film for a period, Mylchreest rented a house and bunked with co-stars, including India Amarteifio, who plays Queen Charlotte, Sam Clemmett, who plays her butler Brimsley, and Freddie Dennis, who plays George’s butler Reynolds.
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Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 10 May 2023
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
This predominately Coptic Christian community dates back to the 1920s, when families migrated from their home villages in Upper Egypt and set up camp on what was then the outskirts of Cairo, collecting garbage as feed for their pig farms and to sell as scrap.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
In New Zealand's capital of Wellington, demonstrators have set up camp on the grounds of the country's parliament and have gathered on the streets to protest Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's vaccine mandate, according to CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand (RNZ).
—Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
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Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 10 May 2023
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
This predominately Coptic Christian community dates back to the 1920s, when families migrated from their home villages in Upper Egypt and set up camp on what was then the outskirts of Cairo, collecting garbage as feed for their pig farms and to sell as scrap.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
In New Zealand's capital of Wellington, demonstrators have set up camp on the grounds of the country's parliament and have gathered on the streets to protest Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's vaccine mandate, according to CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand (RNZ).
—Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
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