slit trench

He went off and started digging a new slit trench.

I made my way through the orchard and into a slit trench.

He turned around in his slit trench, facing the threat.

It was, he thought, pretty nearly time to fill in this slit trench and start a new one.

- and I beat it back to the slit trench behind our table.

A dim figure tumbled into the slit trench with them.

"Same here," Roger said, looking out of the slit trench.

There were no sewage provisions, not even a simple slit trench.

They made love and slept the night in a slit trench because all the hotels were full.

Half these guys would get shot to bits before they'd dug a slit trench.

Thinking about it, I almost fell into a newly dug slit trench.

I always felt slightly uneasy away from the slit trench in the orchard.

This allowed access from a tunnel or slit trench to the rear.

The folks in town would have to make do with their slit trench, but art always requires sacrifices.

He was less than twenty feet from the slit trench when he hit the ground.

She vaults toward a small slit trench a few yards distant.

He raced across the road and jumped into an empty enemy slit trench.

Finally Lon stood in the center of his slit trench, knowing it was time to stop.

So we rolled an engineering vehicle out and dug a slit trench.

Scores of our troops were hit, their bodies flung from slit trenches.

There was little running water, sparse food, no medical care, and only slit trenches for sanitation.

Sid was sitting under the apple tree next to our slit trench as I approached.

It appeared that the slit trench he was in during the bombardment had received a direct hit.

Lieutenant Ryan lifted his head out of the slit trench and peered into town.

Figure 14. (a) Half fill the slit trench for your cuttings with sand.