trench

The scene where Harris approached a captured bug, rocking an ankle-length black trench coat with his blonde hair in a close crew cut, was the closest “Troopers” came to clubbing the audience in the ribs.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 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

The trench, which is a source of huge quakes, generated a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 1976, triggering a tsunami that killed about 5,000 people.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

At the top of the hill, they climbed over an old retaining wall and down into an excavated trench.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Using excavators and pumping machines, Nepalese rescuers dug a series of trenches from the tunnel all the way to the river outside, so they could drain the water.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Many employers now expect managers to do less coordinating between departments, and to spend more time in the trenches building products or generating revenue themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

He gained a reputation for courage bordering on recklessness, ever-present in frontline trenches and personally leading expeditions to clear mines.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

There was a solidarity among the people in Shady’s bar that night, as one by one they emerged from their trenches and ventured into no-man’s-land.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

Technically, the ditches are considered Oakmont’s only water hazards, even if the fast-moving groundwater rarely remains in the trenched channels long enough to puddle.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 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

Amy Bodek, the county’s regional planning director, recently warned Edison that a government ordinance protects oak trees and that “utility trenching is not exempt from these requirements.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

At just one site of extensive trenching a few hundred yards outside the town of Chernobyl, the Russian army had dug an elaborate maze of sunken walkways and bunkers.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 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