How to Use trench warfare in a Sentence

trench warfare

noun
  • The four years of trench warfare on the western front proved them wrong.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Please, god, let trench warfare in all its forms be gone from this earth forever.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The nature of trench warfare led to high rates of facial injuries.
    — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
  • There was plenty of trench warfare drills and players hit the bags during other sessions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Politics as trench warfare has relieved the Democrats of the burden of thought.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • But also what's going on in the east is essentially trench warfare.
    — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • In eastern Ukraine, trench warfare grinds on against a backdrop of invasion fears.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • In this case, the kids would gain knowledge of trench warfare by being IN makeshift trenches.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • And in front-line areas, ferocious trench warfare is damaging fields, forests and rivers.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Tanks were created to cause destruction during war and gain the upper hand in trench warfare.
    — Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where trench warfare rages on, especially in an around the contested city of Bakhmut.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Looking to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Germans turned to chemical weapons.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • Consensus on a compromise may come someday but only after years of trench warfare in the states.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • Nothing could have prepared him for the wretched realities of trench warfare.
    — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Campus speech debates harden into trench warfare.
    — Nicholas Dirks, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Williams reported that the front line has become an expansive hunting ground for drones since the war's early days of trench warfare.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That conviction came apart in the bloody years that followed, as machine-gun and trench warfare made mincemeat of visions of easy conquest.
    — Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The conflict descended into bloody trench warfare, lasting eight years and costing over a million lives.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • For troops serving on the front lines during World War I, trench warfare was common practice.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
  • This was one of the ugliest matches in recent memory; a game that, in isolation, only those fond of trench warfare could love.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, Russia has imposed on us years of trench warfare, as in the previous century.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Since 2023, as the conflict slowed into trench warfare across much of the battlefield, both sides increased their use of jamming.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The feud in Loving County is marked by both intensity and stasis, with the two sides locked in a small-town version of trench warfare.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026

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