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
• The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The nature of trench warfare led to high rates of facial injuries.
  — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• In this case, the kids would gain knowledge of trench warfare by being IN makeshift trenches.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Politics as trench warfare has relieved the Democrats of the burden of thought.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
• 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
• A million French soldiers had been killed in trench warfare.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
• Please, god, let trench warfare in all its forms be gone from this earth forever.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2022
• Looking to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Germans turned to chemical weapons.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
• 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
• For troops serving on the front lines during World War I, trench warfare was common practice.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Call it trench warfare: inches can be won, but at terrible cost.
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• 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
• In eastern Ukraine, trench warfare grinds on against a backdrop of invasion fears.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• 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
• There was plenty of trench warfare drills and players hit the bags during other sessions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Where trench warfare rages on, especially in an around the contested city of Bakhmut.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The evening's trench warfare was illustrated in two hard-fought swing districts in Virginia.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• And in front-line areas, ferocious trench warfare is damaging fields, forests and rivers.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• But also what's going on in the east is essentially trench warfare.
  — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2023
• 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
• For draft-eligible men, trench warfare is a harrowing prospect.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024