trench

Example Sentences

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It will, according to Nick Card, involve "keyhole surgery" to open a small trench to investigate "this anomaly".

From BBC

They don’t like to talk about it, but after a few years in the trenches, people who work in child welfare often wonder if they aren’t part of the problem.

From Seattle Times

Dowding takes a distinctive approach with potatoes, too, ignoring the conventional advice to plant in trenches and then gradually hill the plants as they grow.

From Seattle Times

Russia has poured extra troops and artillery into the fight this year and some analysts have compared the months of intense, inconclusive trench warfare in eastern Ukraine to World War One.

From Reuters

In fact, it seems she is going to assess his character even more accurately when she says, “It can be a bit difficult to be in the trenches.”

From New York Times