intrench
Example Sentences
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Here the Yankees will intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
As they advanced the other brigades of Field’s division came up, were aligned before the enemy’s heavy massing forces, and ordered to intrench.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Lee consequently halted and began to intrench; and this delay gave time for Ord to come up, and enabled Sheridan to intercept the enemy at Sailor’s Creek.
From The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from Richmond to Appomatox by William B. Arnold
He would need to do no more than shout for the waiter to fill up his mug again and intrench himself for the evening.
From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Heywood Broun
Ah, word of no meaning, behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual!
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
