Sentence example with the word 'entrench'

entrench

arm, break in upon, crash the gates, embattle, fortify, impose upon, interlope, mine, root, squeeze in, wall

Definition v. fix firmly or securely

Last update: October 23, 2015


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The enemy troops were entrenched at the other side of the river.   [Please select]

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No attempt was made to entrench the position systematically, but on the left the 2nd and 3rd Corps made some disconnected shelter trenches and gun-pits, while the 4th Corps in the centre began to improve available cover about an hour before the battle began, and the 6th corps on the right, not yet having received any entrenching tools, could do no more than improvise a few loopholes in the walls of the villages of St Privat and Roncourt with such tools as the sappers could obtain from the inhabitants.   [Please select]

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"Better get back to the fo'c's'le, Jemmy, and entrench yourself."'   [Please select]

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No men were ever better entrenched for political conflict than Schuyler and Hamilton.   [Please select]

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At last we found the brutes entrenched on the banks of the Moskva.   [Please select]

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The British with Washington entrenched on their flank were not safe in New Jersey.   [Please select]

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Here, in the month of December, 1682, La Salle and Tonty began to entrench themselves.   [Please select]

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In both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick little oligarchies had become entrenched.   [Please select]

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