TRENCH in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for TRENCH, such as:

1. Workers dug a trench for gas lines.
2. Dig trenches to drain the water away.
3. The soldier looped a grenade into the enemy shelter trench.
4. The way he builds up the segments of the trench is really amazing.
5. At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRENCH
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trench
 n.  canal; deep furrow or ditch; long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
2  All the uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
3  However, if the geometrical line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a great city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
4  D'Artagnan set out with his four companions, and followed the trench; the two Guards marched abreast with him, and the two soldiers followed behind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
5  They arrived thus, screened by the lining of the trench, till they came within a hundred paces of the bastion.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
6  On arriving at the angle of the trench which was to serve them as a rampart, one of the Guardsmen fell.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
7  The young man turned quickly round, for this attack could not have come from the bastion, which was hidden by the angle of the trench.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
8  There were two means of gaining his object--to search him on the spot, or to carry him away, making a buckler of his body, and search him in the trench.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
9  D'Artagnan regained the trench, and threw the corpse beside the wounded man, who was as pale as death.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
10  He consequently kept it as a piece of evidence, and being in safety behind the angle of the trench, he began to interrogate the wounded man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
11  A trench was dug three and a half feet wide, four feet eight inches deep, and eight feet long.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
12  At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
13  The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
14  On each side of the trench, the earth was cut out to a breadth of about two and a half feet, and this did duty for bedsteads and couches.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
15  The roof was so constructed that one could stand up in the middle of the trench and could even sit up on the beds if one drew close to the table.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  Workers dug a trench for gas lines.
2  The soldier looped a grenade into the enemy shelter trench.
3  The way he builds up the segments of the trench is really amazing.
4  It is so difficult to hurt anyone actually in trenches; I think a mortar is the only thing that can do so.
5  Dig trenches to drain the water away.