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trench

[trench] / trɛntʃ /


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Lewis said a wall runs all the way down the trench and either side of it, according to the survey.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

At one with Burberry, guests could purchase and customize vintage trench coats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The kind of groove your tires make driving to Big Bear in December without chains: an icy trench filled with frustration, exhaustion and everyday sludge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

We arrive once again at our shattered trench and pass on beyond it.

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

Tart, who signed a three-year contract extension in January, is the anchor in the trenches after starting in 17 games last season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

Polish and German soldiers worked for five weeks at the frontier to dig trenches, lay barbed wire and place long lines of concrete barriers known as "hedgehogs" across the landscape.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Monahan described the soldiers as "doing an utterly phenomenal job digging trenches and also helping us build fire breaks".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

One night after a hard day’s work digging trenches for new latrines, I collapsed to the floor of my barrack.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

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

Haphazardly established in the 1960s, the massive garbage pile was never trenched or lined, and no one knows what might be leaking from the dump into the ground.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

Olson, even though it trenched upon the president’s executive authority, concluding that the statute did not unduly limit the president’s power because the imposition was slight.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2018

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

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

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

Robert P. Silverstein, a Pasadena lawyer who represents neighborhood groups opposed to the development, said it is troubling that the city is not ordering the kind of rigorous trenching that was suggested by Parrish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2021

Tools for emergency, tow lines, a small block and tackle, a trenching tool and crowbar, tools for making and fixing and improvising.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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