Example sentences for: trenches

How can you use “trenches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Copies even found their way into the trenches of the First World War, so Frank Richards (his favorite name) stamped generations of boys from 1908 to 1940 and even later when the tales were turned into books, up until the last Bunter Story appeared in 1960, shortly before Richards' death.

  • Without giving up demands for self-determination, India fought at Britain’s side in World War I, and more than one Prussian general blinked at Rajput and Sikh princes leading an Indian infantry through the trenches of France.

  • Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most."

  • Journalists aren't allowed in the trenches.

  • It has been variously supposed that Hitler did what he did because of 1) psychological problems arising from the aforementioned single testicle; 2) physical or sexual abuse by his father; 3) "epidemic encephalitis" contracted in the trenches of World War I; and 4) unforeseen aftereffects of a hypnosis session that restored his eyesight after he was wounded in a gas attack in 1918.


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