trenches
Speech parts
1. trenches - Noun
2. trenches - Verb
Meaning
trenches
plural of trench
trenches pl (plural only)
The front line of any field of endeavor, as the line of scrimmage in American football, patrol duty for a policeman.
trenches
third-person singular simple present indicative of trench
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Examples
I guess it's true what they say. There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass. There are no atheists in the trenches.
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.
Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.