trench

Located just below the seafloor, this unusually weak layer allowed the fault to rupture all the way to the trench during the 2011 "megathrust" earthquake.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Most of the work was abandoned earlier this year, leaving 75 miles of trench where a rail line and a pair of 1,600-foot-tall skyscrapers were meant to run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

His goth uniform included an olive-green trench coat he borrowed from his mom.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Under Schulman, Burberry has refocused on its staple outerwear, including its famed trench coats, in a bid to improve its fortunes.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

The walls of the trench we were moving through had dropped, and the view beyond stretched for an eternity.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Don’t take the chance of returning to the trenches, possibly suffering a catastrophic injury that could potentially put you in a wheelchair for life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

And that’s the result of a formidable quantity of skills acquired over half a century immersed in the rock ‘n’ roll trenches, whether as a listener, critic, producer, or active participant.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

It revealed "monuments ranging from prehistoric long barrows and forts to Roman buildings and even First World War practice trenches," they said.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Brett Matsumoto spent a decade in the trenches of how the government measures the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, two other groups dug trenches and cleared brush on the hillside, hoping to contain the fire’s spread.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

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

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

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

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