intrench

Example Sentences

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He would need to do no more than shout for the waiter to fill up his mug again and intrench himself for the evening.

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood

Here the Yankees will intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Ah, word of no meaning, behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual!

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

Fearful of being attacked before they could intrench, they immediately set to work with their axes to throw together a brushwood fence, while thirty soldiers were stationed in front toward the river, to repel assault.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

On the 1st of July, Burgoyne encamped four miles north of Ticonderoga, and began to intrench and to throw a boom across the lake.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington