trenches

Example Sentences

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They used locally-quarried white quartz set into trenches cut into the turf.

From BBC

As Snoopy continues making his way across the French countryside, navigating barbed trenches and the occasional skirmish, a portentous tune plays, set against a violet-bruised sky.

From Salon

Russia’s layers of trenches and minefields in occupied parts of Ukraine have largely held back Ukraine’s months-old counteroffensive, but going on the attack exposes the troops to Ukrainian fire.

From Washington Times

In the heat of Verona, in the streets of Le Touquet, in the trenches against South Africa and Argentina in Paris - this group of players have been bonded by the pursuit of an unlikely dream.

From BBC

Humanity’s messy fingerprints, from disposable grocery bags adrift in the deepest oceanic trenches to microplastic-laced snowfall on the tallest mountaintops, litter Earth—and each contaminant poses potential environmental hazards that remain poorly understood.

From Scientific American