Sentence examples for system of trenches from inspiring English sources
They had dug a system of trenches and, on the promontory overlooking the river, had installed four Korean-made anti-aircraft guns pointing at the forest.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded in heavy fighting in Somalia's capital over the weekend, as African Union forces attacked an extensive underground fortification system of trenches and tunnels used by Islamist insurgents.
In the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (March 13 May 8 , 1954, which resulted in the French expulsion from Indochina, the communist-led Viet Minh used classic 18th-century siege methods and drove forward an elaborate system of trenches to negate the effects of French artillery and airpower, preparatory to the battle.
In October 1918, this area - around the village of Ramicourt - was the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme line, part of the Hindenburg Line system of trenches, fortified villages and gun emplacements that formed the last line of German defences on the Western Front.
* Installation by the city of a system of trenches and vents beneath the intersection.
* Installation of a system of trenches and vents beneath the intersection of 3rd Street and Ogden Drive.
The opposing systems of trenches are usually close to one another.
Trench warfare, warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.
In the subsequent Battle of the Aisne, the Allied forces were unable to push through the German line, and the fighting quickly degenerated into a stalemate; neither side was willing to give ground, and both started to develop fortified systems of trenches.
The Challenger Deep and similar recesses are part of a vast system of seabed trenches that crisscross the globe.
It is part of the western Pacific system of oceanic trenches coinciding with subduction zones points where two adjacent tectonic plates collide, one being forced below the other.
