trenches

Example Sentences

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“It’s something that we’ve been at, in the trenches, for months. We started preparations around seven or eight months ago and once you decide to go public, that’s the goal.”

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

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 • Mar. 19, 2026

Most other moms I talked to when I was in the breastfeeding trenches were probably experiencing a dopamine dip that was subtle and regulated.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2026

In 1918, from the trenches on the Macedonian front, a 31-year-old German artilleryman sent his mother postcards covered in fragments of a philosophical system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Irina Favorskaya was a student at the Moscow Institute of Geology when the war started, and like many other young women her age, she’d spent the summer of 1941 digging fortification trenches.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein