Sentence examples for trenches half from inspiring English sources

The really upsetting details are the stunning shot of the robin on the wire, the actors' trembles as they cautiously emerge from the trenches, half expecting a sniper's bullet, the flicker of understanding in the eyes as the young soldiers reach into their pockets at the end.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter While detailing the influenza outbreak of Denver in 1918, Pale Horse, Pale Rider also conveys the waste and horror of the World War I trenches half a world away.

Jim, meanwhile, bounds around like a puppy, unfazed by the prospect of digging a three-foot trench for half a mile to access the mains water supply, or fencing in 30 acres of woodland using nothing but wire and pliers.

Outside, two barefoot Italians dug a trench in half-frozen mud for Massimo Bartolini's swimming pool.

Then came the invitation to fall out of the trenches and meet half way.

The electric power consumption for the MMI switch with these trenches is less than half of that of a conventional MMI switch.

But while these have been connected by trenches in the southern half, ironically the sun rather than the rain prevented the same job being completed in the normally boggier northern half.

A service road crossed the trenches in the southern half of the fort, connecting with River Road behind the fort.

Half of the 1/8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment attacked Burj Trench while the other half attacked Triangle Trench, although it was not their objective.

The different performances of trenches on a saturated poroelastic half-space and a single-phase elastic half-space to the moving load-induced ground vibration are identified.

From George Orwell on, everyone who wrote about the war tended to concentrate on Barcelona, but Madrid was on the frontline for two-and-a-half years; the trenches were in the suburbs".