intrench
Example Sentences
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The information was sent up to general head-quarters, and orders were sent General Ransom to intrench his brigade along the crest of the hill.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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
Admiral Sampson, who was anxious to strike a decisive blow before the enemy should have time to concentrate and intrench, then telegraphed Secretary Long as follows: Mole, Haiti, June 7, 1898.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
Here the Yankees will intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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
