trench
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Lewis said a wall runs all the way down the trench and either side of it, according to the survey.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Trotter also continued to play with woven leather, a speciality of the Italian house, on a trench coat for men and on tall boots for women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
At one with Burberry, guests could purchase and customize vintage trench coats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
He unwrapped his mind from his body, separated the two, while he lay in the trench, pressing himself into the mud, luxuriating in how close and connected he was to the mud.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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She claims concrete foundations and trenches for access roads have prevented rainwater from draining towards the sea.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
In World War I, all sides dug in to escape artillery barrages, while the British Army formed units of miners, nicknamed the Moles, to tunnel to German trenches and plant explosives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"He will be able to speak to the lads that are going out in those environments because he led by example, and led in the trenches many times."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
This columnist’s three years in the trenches were the toughest yet most enlightening three years of my career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Until a moment before, these people in Shady’s bar had thought they knew little of each other as they hunkered with their own kind in their own trenches.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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
Haphazardly established in the 1960s, the massive garbage pile was never trenched or lined, and no one knows what might be leaking from the dump into the ground.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
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
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
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The developer’s footprint proposes excavation and trenching over identified Indigenous Traditional Cultural Properties, historic and archaeological resources and access to exercise ceremonial practices and treaty-gathering rights.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Thanks to his horse pasture, he had plenty of open space available for the digging and trenching required to install the pipes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 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
The rain quickly went from a sprinkle to a downpour, thundering against the leaves and trenching water through the soil.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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