Sentence examples for lines of trenches from inspiring English sources

The Germans had constructed three sophisticated lines of trenches with dugouts extending deep underground,bolstered by numerous fortified strong points.

Indeed, with its concrete bunkers, tank traps and lines of trenches, the island seems like a cold war time capsule.

Behind these defenses were still more lines of trenches that were effectively out of range of the enemy's artillery fire.

Chilling aerial images portray the original ground zero and the lines of trenches where troops were stationed for blasts.

The front line actually consisted of three lines of trenches, and the trenches were as deep as thirty feet.

From autumn 1914 two opposing lines of trenches stretched some 475 miles from Switzerland to the Channel coast.

The defenders' artillery was posted to the rear of the main line of trenches.

Each main line of trenches was fronted by fields of barbed wire intended to slow down and entangle attacking infantry.

The town of Fleury fell, as did the first line of trenches in front of Souville, but the offensive stalled at the French strongpoint at Froide Terre.

The first, or front, line of trenches was known as the outpost line and was thinly held by scattered machine gunners distributed behind dense entanglements of barbed wire.

Trench warfare reached its highest development on the Western Front during World War I (1914 18), when armies of millions of men faced each other in a line of trenches extending from the Belgian coast through northeastern France to Switzerland.