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Meanings of dug trenches in English

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Usage of dug trenches in English
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In addition, they dug trenches to restrict access to the voting station.
The South African
2
The brigade then occupied Vaalkranz and erected sangars and dug trenches.
The Great Boer War
3
They have dug trenches and built huge embankments around their villages.
The Guardian
4
They had dug trenches and were laying siege to one of the city barracks.
The Insurrection in Dublin
5
The red caps have dug trenches and the white-band caps have bunged 'em up again.
Light
6
Wrinkle troops hit the beaches under his eyes, dug trenches, and immediately radioed for reinforcements.
Jitterbug Perfume
7
All day we dug trenches and erected wire.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Inf...
8
Instead they dug trenches and hid within them.
The Child Thief
9
In Bergville, a group of protesters dug trenches around the local voting station, effectively postponing the vote.
The South African
10
At the foot of it the Russians had dug trenches and thrown up earth-works the night before.
In the Track of the Troops
11
The Chinese dug trenches and erected earthworks.
China
12
Round the fences he dug trenches, where he piled up the snow, on which he poured water.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
13
We dug trenches, redirected streams, created lakes.
The dog said bow-wow
14
Myron set his plants after the following fashion: he dug trenches along the cord lines previously marked out.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
15
They had dug trenches for themselves within the city and had raised batteries to sweep the important streets.
On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of D...
16
Arriving at the wood, which was being heavily shelled, the men were put into ditches and half- dug trenches.
The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry / Fran...
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