trenches
Example Sentences
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Through those storms, Nigel has been there in the trenches.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
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
Irina Favorskaya was a student at the Moscow Institute of Geology when the war started, and like many other young women her age, she’d spent the summer of 1941 digging fortification trenches.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
