"trench" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A few anti-tank trenches had been dug, but these were ludicrously inadequate both in number and size.
- The long anti-tank trenches we had dug beforehand played a large part in the consolidation of our defense.
- Telling argued strongly against the destruction of an important remnant of "Aryan civilization" and Himmler authorized him to stop the construction of the anti-tank trench.
- During World War II, an anti-tank trench was dug in Tezno, around one km in length and 3 to 4 m wide.
- Finally, anti-tank obstacles were prepared on the likely approaches by deepening and widening existing ground cratering, the precursors of the anti-tank trench.
- The new communist government took advantage of existing anti-tank trenches, dug around Celje by the retreating German army, by using them as mass graves.
- The Wehrmacht had dug anti-tank trenches in the village, which were used to bury the dead.
- During the War an anti-tank trench was dug alongside the Head (the school's main cricket pitch).
- Both are former anti-tank trenches and contain the remains of a large number of Ustaša soldiers and Croatian civilians.
- One hundred meters away, a thousand civilians hacked at the earth with shovels and picks to excavate an anti-tank trench.
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