a type of warfare in which opposing armies face each other in entrenched positions
Examples of 'trench warfare' in a sentence
trench warfare
There is little hope in the whole system, which is like some kind of trench warfare in the face of adversity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A million French soldiers had been killed in trench warfare.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
This trench warfare will be against the background of vocal press campaigns.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The rest of the year it was like trench warfare.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Trench warfare was not ended.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Unless, of course, you count the trench warfare inside the ministry itself.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The day after our meeting he'll be using authentic soldiers' uniforms to teach his history class about trench warfare.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
How does a man feel, for example, as he comes into the strange circumstances of trench warfare for the first time?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
So although today his poetry is regarded as the most powerful literary reflection on the horrors of trench warfare, he wasn't strictly speaking a contemporary voice.