How to Use entrench in a Sentence

entrench

verb

• The heat dome is firmly entrenched over our part of the nation.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 25 July 2023
• SportsPulse: The Ravens have been fully entrenched in the No.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 27 Nov. 2019
• Alex Collins is entrenched as the starter now, but Dixon is the favorite for the pass-catching role.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• The left guard spot seems all but sewn up with Vorhees firmly entrenched.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and is entrenched in the health care system.
  — Npr Staff, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024
• The Houthis, firmly entrenched in Yemen, show no signs of backing down.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
• By this point, Barkley had firmly entrenched himself in the top 10 of most mock drafts.
  — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 26 Apr. 2018
• At the core of Idlib's predicament is the thousands of jihadists entrenched in the province along with the civilians.
  — Zeina Karam, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• Look at how deeply entrenched the Trump campaign and the Trump team is with one another.
  — Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
• Safe to say Kupp was firmly entrenched on one side of that debate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• They were intended to entrench the rule of the party in power.
  — Gideon Cohn-Postar, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
• The move comes after three of its charter schools were found to have been entrenched in scandal.
  — Bella Ross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2019
• Witt is firmly entrenched as the face of the franchise for the foreseeable future.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• And this year’s slate could further entrench Netflix with viewers around the world for many years to come.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2021
• Carrick’s older brother, Sam, was a three-year captain of the Gulls who’s now entrenched with the Ducks.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
• But that’s obviously not the case, and it’s been entrenched.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
• Elections under a regime such as the one entrenched in Tehran are neither free nor fair.
  — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• One year on from the outbreak of war with Hamas in Gaza, Israel is now entrenched in war on other fronts too.
  — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
• The Reds haven’t had a first baseman or third baseman play in at least half of the team’s games since 2021, when Votto and Suárez were entrenched in those spots.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• Tipping is a part of the city’s infrastructure, as entrenched as the asphalt.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• But Black’s hard work has entrenched her into a career as a sports leader.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
• Real or not, Molly and the song that brought her to life has become entrenched in Dublin culture, Yeates said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• They were entrenched in artist development and were damn good at it.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 4 June 2019
• They are entrenched in the villages and their rockets are hidden inside their homes.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
• In fact, our very mechanisms for change at the macro level seem only to entrench the status quo.
  — World Economic Forum, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• The Colts desperately need a player to entrench himself at left tackle, both in the short and long terms.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2022
• But their eldest son is killed in the fighting, and the RDA remains deeply entrenched on Pandora.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
• The heat The heat dome entrenched over much of the Lower 48 states promises to send temperatures soaring into the low to mid-90s.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• While Judge is firmly entrenched as the Yankees’ right fielder, LeMahieu’s first spring game will also be his first chance to make a statement on the club’s third base competition.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
• Republicans' latest revamping effort comes as Medicaid expansion has become entrenched in most states — and their budgets — over the past decade.
  — Phil Galewitz, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Mar 2025