trench

Some requests, like how to jump a motorcycle over a trench, are not necessarily nefarious in nature.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

We dig a trench in a large triangle around our tents and plant our posts so close together an arrow cannot get through.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Mamdani removed all of the advisers on the group’s board, which many on Wall Street and in the development trenches saw as a sign that he isn’t much interested in their opinions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

And that’s the result of a formidable quantity of skills acquired over half a century immersed in the rock ‘n’ roll trenches, whether as a listener, critic, producer, or active participant.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

It revealed "monuments ranging from prehistoric long barrows and forts to Roman buildings and even First World War practice trenches," they said.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

One night after a hard day’s work digging trenches for new latrines, I collapsed to the floor of my barrack.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

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

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

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

Robert P. Silverstein, a Pasadena lawyer who represents neighborhood groups opposed to the development, said it is troubling that the city is not ordering the kind of rigorous trenching that was suggested by Parrish.

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