Use trench in a sentence
Sentences ending with trench
- He was standing in a hollow, a kind of trench. [11]
- Seven months the British sappers had toiled far below in the chalk, digging the passage and chamber; and one summer dawn, like some tropical volcano, it had burst directly under the German trench. [9]
More example sentences with the word trench in them
- The square in which the convicts were massed was a trench of blood and bodies; but they fought on. [11]
- Every trench dug where the paving was torn up had its object, and each heap of stones its particular design. [10]
- 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. [2]
- But we here trench on the subjects of sympathy and fidelity, to which I shall recur. [1]
- The artist proposed to make a sketch of one of these primitive couples, but it was impossible to do so, because they lay in a trench which they had scooped in the sand two feet deep, and had hoisted an umbrella over their heads. [4]
- Pierre looked over the wall of the trench and was particularly struck by a pale young officer who, letting his sword hang down, was walking backwards and kept glancing uneasily around. [2]
- Now, seated on the slope of the trench, he observed the faces of those around him. [2]
- She had that strong practical regard for the simple holy truth of expression, which Mr. Trench has enforced, as a duty too often neglected. [14]
- 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. [2]
- There was a shallow trench before we came to the cornfield, too narrow for a road, as I should think, too elevated for a water-course, and which seemed to have been used as a rifle-pit. [6]
- Gering had not seen, and his sword ran up Iberville's arm, making a little trench in the flesh. [11]
- Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
- Here is a picture of that other aspect--the grimness, the monotony, and the frequent bestiality of trench life, the horror of slaughtering millions of men by highly specialized machinery. [9]
- There was an opulent abundance of things I didn't know; and consequently no need to trench upon the vest-pocketful of things I did know, to get material for a blunder. [5]
- It is an old German trench which the rains have worn and widened. [9]
- 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. [2]
- At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule. [2]
- A hundred miles of sun and fair weather, sleeping at night in the open in a trench dug in the snow, no fear in the thoughts of Jim, nor evil in the heart of the heathen man. [11]
- Having reached the knoll, Pierre sat down at one end of a trench surrounding the battery and gazed at what was going on around him with an unconsciously happy smile. [2]
- A trench was dug three and a half feet wide, four feet eight inches deep, and eight feet long. [2]
- Several soldiers gathered by the wall of the trench, looking out to see what was happening in front. [2]
- The water ran all over the altar, and all down the sides, and filled up a trench around it that would hold a couple of hogsheads-'measures,' it says; I reckon it means about a hogshead. [5]
- The water ran all over the altar, and all down the sides, and filled up a trench around it that would hold a couple of hogsheads--"measures," it says: I reckon it means about a hogshead. [5]
- A shallow psychology (as the author points out), especially in these days of trench warfare! [9]
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