trench
Example Sentences
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If he goes full trench coat, like Neo in The Matrix, consider taking profits.
From Barron's
Betts Recruiting’s Kellenberger said it would take time and a gradual shift in perception for more engineers to consider throwing themselves out into the trenches.
His contention that bombing industrial centers would lead to a speedy victory was seen by many as a response to World War I, and the long slog of trench warfare.
He is wearing a trench coat and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and is holding a manila folder full of official-looking papers.
From Literature
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In 1918, from the trenches on the Macedonian front, a 31-year-old German artilleryman sent his mother postcards covered in fragments of a philosophical system.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.