intrench
Example Sentences
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Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?
From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Colley Cibber
The French fleet, surprised and not strong enough to cope with the Spaniards, cut their cables and left, and Menendez entered an inlet which he called St. Augustin, and there began to intrench himself.
From Elsie in the South by Martha Finley
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 Heywood Broun
I wish I could see them begin to intrench themselves, but there is no sign of it.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
Failure to support his troops and to intrench lost him all he had gained, and he returned to his intrenchments at Bermuda Hundreds.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson
