intrench
Example Sentences
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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
Before knowing the true situation, he gave orders to retire and intrench with a view to a siege.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher
Here, immediately after fixing their plan, they began to intrench and fortify the ground they occupied, and made all the dispositions which troops usually do who halt for the night.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
It proceeded to intrench itself in political as well as in financial power.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
They were proceeding to intrench themselves, but were driven into their tents by a drenching rain.
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 Washington Irving
