Synonym: channel, ditch, dugout, foxhole, moat. Similar words: entrench, trenchant, entrenched, trench warfare, French, wrench, drench, drenched. Meaning: [trentʃ] n. 1. a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth 2. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor 3. any long ditch cut in the ground. v. 1. impinge or infringe upon 2. fortify by surrounding with trenches 3. cut or carve deeply into 4. set, plant, or bury in a trench 5. cut a trench in, as for drainage 6. dig a trench or trenches.
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31. To his left Stephen saw men trying to emerge from the trench but being smashed by bullets before they could stand.
32. And yet in their own city, hundreds of women and children every year crawl out of the front line into this trench.
33. The excavations revealed somewhat ambiguous structural evidence for a furnace with the discovery of a firing trench.
34. He saw Gray run along the top of the trench, shouting encouragement.
35. In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor.
36. I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his.
37. As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor.
38. I just got into the trench in time as a few explosions were occuring in several parts of the orchard.
39. Most of the time it falls on the troops from the sky, while they try to sleep in some half-filled trench.
40. Where the water dripped on to my dirt floor, I scraped a trench with my pocket knife to let it drain out.
41. They dug it up when they was making the trench for the pipes to the new vehicle examination extension.
42. Fairly consistent patterns are evident in the location of the volcanic activity with respect to the fringing trench.
43. The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
44. I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench.
45. There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn.
46. And so on that soaking wet winter day we began digging our trench.
47. Two machine guns and ten rifles had been hidden in a long trench un-der that innocent-looking-pile of brush.
48. Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch.
49. In a trench to his rear that he had ordered to be abandoned the previous night,(http://sentencedict.com/trench.html) eight shells burst almost simultaneously.
50. Once the plants are laid in the trench, turn the next spit of earth loosely over the roots.
51. Water belched out as he drenched each tree, pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks.
52. Faster than new crust can be added to the plate, old crust is being consumed by the trench.
53. Further shelling had caused casualties in the trench and had destroyed the parapet over a length of fifty yards.
54. You have to trench around the stump and sever all the roots.
55. As a result the trench was neat, with straight vertical sides and a flat bottom.
56. I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench.
57. They can be put in a timber floor or in a trench in a solid floor.
58. The little-noticed trench warfare over Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is nothing new.
59. Soon the floor of the trench was covered in water - soaking into everything.
60. Convergent boundaries between oceanic lithosphere are marked by an oceanic trench, a volcanic island arc and a Wadati-Benioff zone.
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