Sentence examples for digging a trench from inspiring English sources
Other changes to the soil such as lighter and darker layers can show either natural accumulation, chemicals or metals being dumped, or humans digging holes for a fencepost, digging a trench to bury something or part of land management, such as building an earthen or stone wall.
Mr. Crawford planted his first garlic by digging a trench with a hoe.
The base was lurching, too, back and forth a foot at a time, digging a trench in the yard.
Its ruins were soon buried under desert sands, to be discovered in 1920 by British soldiers digging a trench.
On a ledge just inside the lip of Chile's Quizapu volcanic crater, Philipp Ruprecht was furiously digging a trench.
There are construction men who happened to be digging a trench in which the dead person happened to be buried.
As the thunderstorm approached, the men were digging a trench near the Glen Ilah subdivision southwest of Yarnell, trying to protect its homes.
It had threatened to spill over the caldera's rim until the institute undammed the waters in 2001 by digging a trench toward Zambales.
Some soldiers slowly began digging a trench outside their tents, to keep water from pooling around their cots and their feet in the coming hours.
An electrician later dug a trench and installed lights ($845).
