They often modify their roosting sites by constructing tents from the leaves, partly cutting through them to make an inverted "V" shape.

They stood looking down into the outer ward at the mass of people moving about, constructing tents and temporary lodgings for themselves.

State prison officials immediately began making arrangements to construct temporary tents for the prisoners next to the Hudson County Jail Annex in Secaucus.

Then we set to work to construct tents and I ordered the steward to try and produce some sort of a stew.

These Zensunnis had constructed tents and shelters from scavenged tarpaulins and cargo wrappings.

Its common name comes from its curious behavior of constructing tents out of large, fan-shaped leaves.

Relief teams began distributing plastic sheets to construct tents, an item at the top of the list for everyone left homeless, and large tanker trucks delivered drinking water to residential areas.

The bats chew the fronds of the palms to construct fairly simple tents.

In the far north, the Inuit constructed temporary camps with igloos, a domed structure made of snow, and tents made of animal hides in the summer.

Some families have moved into a small park in Boumerdes, constructing makeshift tents from beach umbrellas, sheets and blankets.