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a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare -
a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win
the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
How To Use trench warfare In A Sentence
- instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in 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
- This trench warfare will be against the background of vocal press campaigns. Times, Sunday Times
- There is little hope in the whole system, which is like some kind of trench warfare in the face of adversity. Times, Sunday Times
- In the American civil war the sieges of Vicksburg and Petersburg saw trench warfare on a localized scale, and the same was true of the siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war.
- This trench warfare will be against the background of vocal press campaigns. Times, Sunday Times
- Trench warfare in Pennsylvania cities is therefore inchmeal, and the results hard to measure.
- The rest of the year it was like trench warfare. Times, Sunday Times
- So they dug in and trench warfare lasted for the next 3 years.
- How did the German experience of World War One trench warfare differ from that of the Allies?