trench

Example Sentences

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A massive billboard on display in northern Tehran shows Khamenei in his clerical robes standing in trenches, pointing at missiles being fired in the distance and surrounded by officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile, he and others relegated Huerta to sidekick status, both in the trenches and in the public — and the image makers followed his lead.

From Los Angeles Times

And over six seasons, the series examined the under-explored territory that lay between two world wars—a kind of historical trench in which all manner of skullduggery could fester and bloom.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was on potato detail, one of a crew hauling baskets of potatoes to long trenches to be covered with dirt against the freezing weather ahead.

From Literature

I’ve spent so much time there that the mattress is less a flat plane than a trench.

From Literature