trenches
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Back on the sideline with the Friars for the first time in more than two decades, Garretson said Servite needed to be strong in the trenches in order to win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Mamdani removed all of the advisers on the group’s board, which many on Wall Street and in the development trenches saw as a sign that he isn’t much interested in their opinions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"I've been through the trenches, awake all night. You don't want to leave the house, or go to a different town."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
They weren’t mutinies in the sense that soldiers attacked their officers, but were more like workmen’s strikes, in which entire units refused to return to the trenches or take part in new attacks.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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