entrenching's Usage Examples:

An entrenching tool (U.

for its line of polymer-framed pistols, it also produces field knives, entrenching tools, and apparel.

clauses are unentrenchable, preventing state law from having effectively entrenching clauses.

close quarters combat, including utility knives or entrenching shovels.

During World War I, the entrenching shovel was also pressed into service as a melee.

extensively used in trench warfare of the First World War; for example, an entrenching tool might be modified to take an edge and be used as a melee weapon.

Claudius and his chief of staff, Lelius Hamo, landed at Portchester, entrenching themselves there while besieging the city.

The defender, meanwhile, can improve his odds by entrenching himself atop a hill.

such as knives, sticks, batons, spears, or improvised weapons such as entrenching tools.

Sherman's army tested the Rebel line while entrenching themselves.

Vienna's constant meddling in Serb affairs, the Serb Orthodox were slowly entrenching their communal organizations and settling themselves permanently.

priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics.

appointed by the State President and the 166 elected members, further entrenching the NP's majority.

The dolabra was an Italian pickaxe used as an entrenching tool.

calling it "clearly the spreadsheet of the future", the market was rapidly entrenching Microsoft Excel.

as a defender in the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 All-Australian teams entrenching himself as one of the best key defenders in the league.

criticized for creating ineffective and unwieldy political structures and entrenching the ethnic cleansing of the previous war.

It ended in stalemate, with both sides entrenching.

was a prominent Turkish statesman credited with being instrumental in entrenching democracy in Turkey by taking politics to the masses.

Synonyms:

intrench; secure; fasten; fix;

Antonyms:

unchain; natural elevation; recede; keep; unfasten;