Sentence examples for trench about from inspiring English sources

The downward motion begins at the contact zone between the two plates along the Aleutian trench about 80 miles offshore.

At 17, he was cast in William Boyd's directorial debut, The Trench, about life and death on the Western Front.

When two strips of land are finished, the last furrows cut leave a trench about twice the width of one bottom, called a dead furrow.

He spent time exploring and filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles south west of the Pacific island of Guam, according to members of the National Geographic expedition.

As darkness fell on the first night, Scheer said he dug a narrow slit trench about two feet deep and tried to sleep.

Mark out where you will be growing beans next year and make a bean trench about one spit deep and 45cm (18ins) wide.

Two parallel human leg bones were discovered about 5 m from the north end of the trench at about 1.5 m deep, indicating an undisturbed burial.

And water pressure at the bottom of the trench is about 16,000 lbs per square inch (1,125 kg per sq cm), about the same as being stepped on by an elephant wearing high-heeled shoes.

A force thought to number about 150 Iraqis was waiting in trenches about 100 yards off the highway.

Shaheen's sewers are concrete trenches about a foot deep, into which wastewater, rendered milky white by dish soap, flows from pipes exiting mud-brick houses.

In its highest stage of development, it was constructed by excavating parallel trenches about 40 feet apart to provide longitudinal drainage a hallmark of Roman road engineering.