Word Finder - tent

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A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

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We were camping in a three-man tent.

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The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

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A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.

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A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

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To go camping.

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We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

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To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.

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To form into a tent-like shape.

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The sheet tented over his midsection.

He returned to his tent, deep in thought.

Dean had opted to pitch his tent in City Park.

They entered a tent, and she was thrown to the ground.

And I ain't staying in no skimpy little tent neither.

There was a large backpack, a smaller one, a bagged tent and a rolled-up sleeping bag.

Do not place your campfire near the tent.

After once again setting up Dean's tent, this time in the dark, Fred suggested they go someplace quiet and talk.

When we're finished we take the tent down and bring it back here.

He looked one last time at the woman in his bed and left the tent.

While Brady knew Lana was too afraid to leave his tent even if it wasn't guarded, he'd had to order Elise chained to a tree within view of four guards.

Dan led them to Brady's tent and pushed the tent flap open.

The temperature of his tent seemed to drop by ten degrees.

When they had crossed the field to the spot where Dean's tent was pitched, he began to dismantle it.

Pulling the rail back up, she stood beside the tent, helplessly watching Destiny cry until she coughed herself into another retching fit.

Dean moseyed off to set up his tent while Fred tried to call Mrs. Porter one more time.

He did say the guy is camping—he was hauling a tent and stuff.

Fred, in a particularly kind mood, had not only picked up the gear but set up Dean's tent for him.

Yep. I can move the girls tonight so they're not stuck without a tent to sleep in.

The two men were sitting outside Dean's recently-pitched tent in Cortez, Colorado.

I figure we just set up this tent right on the other site and pull his stuff inside.

If that's the case, why did he bring his tent?

I found it in your tent.

He rose, walked to and fro, put on a warm overcoat and a hat, and went out of the tent.

There were three operating tables in the tent.

Consult your retailer for advice on the most appropriate sealant or reproofing agent for your tent.

The hydrostatic rate is 3000mm and the tent is flame retardant treated.

Fanatical field assistant attempts to smoke portion of dried scat sample and unwittingly ignites canvas tent, destroying hair samples.

Inside there is a built-in inner tent made of breathable polyester with a sewn in groundsheet.

As if Destiny had not been through enough already, she was forced to stay inside the tent.

Carmen let the bed rail down and jerked the tent from under the mattress, allowing Destiny to crawl close.

Carmen gazed down at Destiny inside the oxygen tent.

He said Destiny's fever had broken and if she continued to improve, they would take the tent off her bed in a few days.

He nodded and returned to the tent.

Moonlight spilled into part of the tent.

The micro would allow her to map a route west, and she could put on his tactical clothing and mask and leave the tent.

Lana straightened in her seat on the couch, eyes following his powerful stride across the tent.

They entered his tent.

Kiki nodded without leaving the tent.

He wasn't sure what to say.  Andre had never spoken well of Death, but the woman in his tent seemed harmless.

I was just about to pat myself on the back for weaseling out the location of Corbin's tent.

Hi. I was pretty sure this was your tent.

A small tent was erected a short distance from them.

Vara motioned her out from under the tent and led her toward the caravan.

He died suddenly in his tent at Jaen when preparing for a raid into the Moorish territory of Granada, on the 7th of September 1312.

The long hair is shorn every summer, and woven into a variety of stuffs used by the Arab for clothing himself and his family, and covering his tent.

In May 1223 he was seized at midnight in his tent on the isle of Lyo, whither he had come to hunt, by his vassal and guest.

He complains of the busy idleness in which his time was spent; but, considering the circumstances, so adverse to study, one is rather surprised that the military student should have done so much, than that he did so little; and never probably before were so many hours of literary study spent in a tent.

He takes the field himself, and performs many heroic deeds until he is wounded and forced to withdraw to his tent.

Three nights later four followers of the chief of Bobbili crept into the tent of the raja of Vizianagram and stabbed him to death.

Reference has already been made to the silken tube or tent, of simple structure, with an orifice at one or both ends, as the possible origin of all snares, however complex they may be.