Sentence examples for to trench from inspiring English sources
verb
To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
She adapted the look, and the vaguely hourglass proportions, to trench coats and dresses, too.
From chivalry and magic lantern shows to trench warfare and cinema: we've made the transition, and we live with it.
"What entitles Congress to trench on a presidential power that has been exercised virtually since the beginning of the country?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked.
When items of utility — from denim overalls to trench coats — lose their ergonomic focus, they are free to be explored as fashion.
The transitions from sexual intrigue to family drama to trench warfare and finally a slightly dated fin de siècle Holmesian espionage romp maintain the momentum.
As Taylor showed last season, it is very difficult for rookie defensive tackles to adjust to trench warfare in the N.F.L. Whoever replaces Taylor will play next to Ahtyba Rubin, who is arguably the most overrated defensive tackle in football.
A pulsed voltage is applied to the trench to make a transient ion sheath around the trench.
The men are called to the trench to prepare for the big push.
Occasionally orogenesis related to trench-continent interaction may extend far inland; the parts of the Andes exhibiting this trait display mechanical rock deformation but little volcanism, and a similar genetic mechanism has been suggested for the Rocky Mountains of North America.
Convergence across the boundary is close to trench-perpendicular at roughly 92 mm/yr (DeMets et al., 2010).
In addition to trench-like spillways, these meltwater floods sculpted large-scale streamlined residual hills, longitudinal grooves, and other landforms in the proglacial landscape.
