trench

Located just below the seafloor, this unusually weak layer allowed the fault to rupture all the way to the trench during the 2011 "megathrust" earthquake.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Most of the work was abandoned earlier this year, leaving 75 miles of trench where a rail line and a pair of 1,600-foot-tall skyscrapers were meant to run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

His goth uniform included an olive-green trench coat he borrowed from his mom.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

They didn't cater for the people peering over the rim of the trench with her.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Then the two started, through the trench and on to the enemy’s camp.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Because Sardis sits on an alluvial plain, some trenches extend as much as 12 meters underground.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

A French machine-gun officer in the trenches during the First World War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Working with the people was the hardest part,” Benitez said, recalling his days in the conservation trenches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Whether or not you pursue sleep training for the imperfect strategy that it is, there’s a ray of hope for anyone struggling through the trenches of nighttime wake-ups.

From Slate ● May 3, 2026

On the Western Front, especially, trenches were protected by dense belts of barbed-wire entanglements strung between wooden posts or metal pickets.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

Olson, even though it trenched upon the president’s executive authority, concluding that the statute did not unduly limit the president’s power because the imposition was slight.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2018

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

City of Shoreline permitting records online didn’t contain information Tuesday about what kind of worker protection was used in the trenching site.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

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