Trenches is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRENCHES in dictionary:

VERB:
• TRENCH, to dig a long, narrow ditch
• dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)
• turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.
• border closely on; encroach on
NOUN:
• a long, narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.
• the battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War
• a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone
• a trench coat.
• a long, narrow ditch
• a connected system of long, narrow ditches forming an army's line.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground

Words related to TRENCHES

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How to use TRENCHES in a sentence

• I surveyed with a melancholy interest the trenches of Fort Necessity, which were yet clearly to be seen on the plain.
• Repulsed and running for their own trenches, they were trapped by the barbed wire entanglements which had been built with such great strength and thickness in front of them.
• Finally the Russian infantry succeeded in establishing a number of trenches, the one opposite us not more than five hundred yards away.
• We were quite near a little stream, a tributary of the Douve, in fact it ran along the front of our trenches.
• Badajos in 1812 sustained twenty-one days of open trenches.
• On going back to the trenches a thoughtless sentry may halt the ration party.
• Here on quiet nights one could easily hear the fusillade in the trenches while the distant gun flashes lit up the night sky.
• Here things were comparatively quiet, though the trenches were in a very bad condition, and the danger of trench feet was considerable.
• In a small garden it is never advisable to have Celery very forward, for the simple reason that trenches cannot be made for it until Peas come off and other early crops are over.
• Now I wonder if there is any woman patriotic enough to adopt those two little ones whose mother is dead and whose father is in the trenches.
• All peasants remaining at the country-side in Prussia are compelled to work digging trenches.
• The journey through the dark trenches was a long one, made thrilling by the Germans, who were trying to drop shells into them as the food was coming up to the front line.
• In these stirring times we want men of nerve in the orchard as well as in the trenches.
• They knew, as did we, that the roads in the rear of the trenches are filled, at night, with troops, transport wagons, and fatigue parties.
• At one end, over the entrance door, there was a belfry in which was hung a good sized German gas bell found in the trenches on our advance.
• The 10th Battalion had gone forward and taken possession of trenches beyond the village.
• So together we made our way up a steep spur, and in two hours had traversed the first line trenches and taken in the lie of the land.
• We had a long distance to go, and part of the way we had to move through the trenches, then we had to take the road branching off to the rear.
• They wasted much of their fire on unoccupied ground in the immediate rear of the American position, and it was only an occasional shell that landed near the trenches.
• Only the shells of the artillery, which from daylight onwards played upon the trenches and partially mastered the fire from them, saved the Highland Brigade from destruction.
• The darkness was heavy, but nevertheless as they talked they did not dare to raise their heads above the trenches.

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