trench

The kind of groove your tires make driving to Big Bear in December without chains: an icy trench filled with frustration, exhaustion and everyday sludge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

"I’ve always felt supported from day one and it’s a story that keeps going," she told BFM TV, wearing black sunglasses and a beige trench coat.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

After years of unsuccessful makeover attempts by previous management teams, the British luxury trench coat brand appears to be turning a corner and increased sales by 4% over the three months through June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The trench he wanted me to dig had to be big enough to fit a refrigerator.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Now Scott Bessent finds himself on the other side of the foreign-exchange trenches as U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

On schist foundations, cautious engineers knew to build in safety features like a series of cut-off trenches and drainage pipes — a step Mulholland had neglected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"I've been through the trenches, awake all night. You don't want to leave the house, or go to a different town."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

But then their offensive sputtered to a halt as infantrymen and horse-drawn artillery became ensnared in the obstacle course of churned-up fields, abandoned trenches, and shattered roads left from the Battle of the Somme.

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

Technically, the ditches are considered Oakmont’s only water hazards, even if the fast-moving groundwater rarely remains in the trenched channels long enough to puddle.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 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

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

“It was very frustrating,” Parrish said of the previous trenching effort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 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