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But water collected in the trench that was dug for it as they were working to compact the soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

It is hard to make much of Richard Long’s “Battery Park,” a photograph of a rectangular trench and a sod-covered mound that the artist constructed in Lower Manhattan in 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The scene where Harris approached a captured bug, rocking an ankle-length black trench coat with his blonde hair in a close crew cut, was the closest “Troopers” came to clubbing the audience in the ribs.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The material was already buried when Constance arrived and it was his job to dig a 6m-deep trench around the outside of the mound before it was sealed using plastic membrane sheets and liquid clay.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

At the end of the first week, he caught the captain watching him as he helped dig a trench under the roasting sun.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

The battle in the trenches will be memorable, with Orange Lutheran’s offensive line, led by Texas-bound Lucas Rhoa, taking on Sierra Canyon’s outstanding defensive line that includes former Lancer Marcus Fakatou, who wears No. 99.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Many employers now expect managers to do less coordinating between departments, and to spend more time in the trenches building products or generating revenue themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

He gained a reputation for courage bordering on recklessness, ever-present in frontline trenches and personally leading expeditions to clear mines.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Polish and German soldiers worked for five weeks at the frontier to dig trenches, lay barbed wire and place long lines of concrete barriers known as "hedgehogs" across the landscape.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

And anyone else who looked wouldn’t understand; they would just see two leg-size trenches and wonder what had made them.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

After clearing swaths of torched aloe plants, he trenched in about 500 native plants that he said “will look spectacular in a few years.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

“Areas that they may have trenched out and are working in could fill in with not just water but with more debris,” Fugate said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

And he was as equally unhappy during construction, when the company trenched up his manicured yard to run the pipeline 60 feet from the front door of his family’s 5-year-old brick home.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2017

Thirty minutes into the ride, winding through trenched dirt roads and old, fringe neighborhoods whose residents have probably never seen an American civilian, Farhad said we were close.

From Slate ● May 6, 2016

Many of the fair’s fifty-seven miles of roadway were still either submerged or coated with mud, and others had been gouged and trenched by vehicles that had used the roads while they were still sodden.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Amy Bodek, the county’s regional planning director, recently warned Edison that a government ordinance protects oak trees and that “utility trenching is not exempt from these requirements.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Vulcan testified Nov. 9 that the new option could be done in four years fewer than a possible eight years of trenching under Westlake.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

They were used to using machinery and trenching and those skills were transferrable to cemeteries.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

“He started trenching, picking, and ordered up drilling,” said Mr. Kabongo.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

Tools for emergency, tow lines, a small block and tackle, a trenching tool and crowbar, tools for making and fixing and improvising.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck