How to Use trench warfare in a Sentence
trench warfare
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The four years of trench warfare on the western front proved them wrong.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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The horrors of the trench warfare leave their mark as one by one each of the friends is killed.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
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The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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The tank came to life in 1915 as a way to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the front lines of Western Europe.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
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The nature of trench warfare led to high rates of facial injuries.
—Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
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In this case, the kids would gain knowledge of trench warfare by being IN makeshift trenches.
—Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
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Politics as trench warfare has relieved the Democrats of the burden of thought.
—Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
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In the past week, the tug-of-war between the city and the three scooter providers — Bird, LimeBike and Spin — has devolved into trench warfare.
—Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
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A million French soldiers had been killed in trench warfare.
—Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
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Please, god, let trench warfare in all its forms be gone from this earth forever.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2022
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Looking to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Germans turned to chemical weapons.
—Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
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It’s hard to imagine trench warfare in fortresslike mountains where avalanches were as much a threat as artillery shelling.
—Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
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For troops serving on the front lines during World War I, trench warfare was common practice.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
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Both films capture the sheer horror of trench warfare, and up-close deployment of new weapons, such as mustard gas.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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The years of trench warfare between cleanup crews and bad actors was laid out clearly in two images Monday.
—Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
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Call it trench warfare: inches can be won, but at terrible cost.
—Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
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This is not to say that partisanship and trench warfare on climate change are going to recede like the world's ice sheets.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2012
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In eastern Ukraine, trench warfare grinds on against a backdrop of invasion fears.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
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Both sides have poured troops, tanks and artillery into the city, where brutal trench warfare has drawn comparisons to World War I.
—Isabel Coles, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
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There was plenty of trench warfare drills and players hit the bags during other sessions.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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Where trench warfare rages on, especially in an around the contested city of Bakhmut.
—CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
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In the mid 19th century, the British and the then Russian Empire were embedded in a terrible, mud laden trench warfare in the winter.
—Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
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The evening's trench warfare was illustrated in two hard-fought swing districts in Virginia.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
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The tank was invented to break the stalemate of trench warfare on World War I's European battlefields.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2016
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By the end of 2022, the front lines had become a punishing arena of trench warfare, drone attacks, and artillery battles across frozen fields and villages.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023
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And in front-line areas, ferocious trench warfare is damaging fields, forests and rivers.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
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But also what's going on in the east is essentially trench warfare.
—CBS News, 8 Jan. 2023
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There's trench warfare, a soaring block-party musical number, a car chase, a cabin in the woods: no complaints!
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2020
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More immediately the lupine pop up in the wreckage just as the red poppies of France followed the damage to land suffering trench warfare.
—Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
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The plans for calling up more soldiers to fight in grim trench warfare was something nobody in Ukraine’s military or civilian leadership wanted to be associated with.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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