trench

“We need to treat deep precision strike as deterrence,” Nowak said, noting that if Ukraine had it early in the war, fighting wouldn’t have “resulted in trench battles like in World War I.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But water collected in the trench that was dug for it as they were working to compact the soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

"There are lots of gardening appropriate silhouettes on the runways," she says, including aprons, waterproof materials and trench coats.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

There are at least four more batteries of nine-inch guns to the right of the farm, and behind the poplars they have put in trench mortars.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

She claims concrete foundations and trenches for access roads have prevented rainwater from draining towards the sea.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Through those storms, Nigel has been there in the trenches.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

The offensive lineman impressed during training camp and adds depth after the Chargers assigned offensive lineman Branson Taylor to injury reserve alongside two-way trenches trooper Scott Matlock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

And anyone else who looked wouldn’t understand; they would just see two leg-size trenches and wonder what had made them.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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

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