5 sentences with 'trenches'
Example sentences and phrases with the word trenches and other words derived from it.
• « That Christmas, in a well-remembered symbolic moment, a brief and unauthorised truce was held on the Western Front between Entente and German forces long enough for French and German soldiers to emerge from their respective trenches and gather in the "no man's land" between the lines, with a German barber offering shaves and haircuts to all comers. »
• « On the war's Western Front, it was the trenches that defined almost everything in the lives of soldiers on both sides of the conflict. An English officer and poet later wrote that "in the end, this war was a matter of holes and trenches". »
• « Although they began as hastily dug, improvised trenches, the trenches grew into vast networks of fortified crevices stretching from the English Channel in the north to the Swiss Alps in the south. »
• « Man's increasing ability to access diverse natural environments - exploration of submarine trenches, high mountain systems, etc. - in order to learn about them and, fundamentally, the need to exploit the world's natural resources to the maximum, explains the recent appearance of species that were thought to be extinct. »
• « Fear spread in the city of Buenos Aires when the first defeated troops arrived. Faced with the possibility of a swift British attack, the mayor Martín de Álzaga took command, who organised the defence, ordered trenches to be dug, distributed weapons and raised everyone's spirits. At that moment Liniers returned, having managed to reorganise his forces. »