Establish firmly

Usage examples of entrench.

When Brutus and Cassius marched west on the same road, they had to be halted well east of the Adriatic, and a formidably entrenched force eight legions strong would bring them to an abrupt stop, no matter how enormous their own army was.

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

Responding to such appeals, or acting on their own initiative, the State legislatures enacted measure after measure which entrenched upon the normal life of the community very drastically.

All over the country African bees were spreading, entrenching, reproducing, swarming again, despite careful swch-and-destroy missions to find them.

His plan of campaign was to rush the Fenian troops across the border without delay, and to entrench themselves at points where reinforcements could rally around them as supports when they had obtained a foot-hold.

The enemy was struck early June 24, entrenched on the heights of La Guasima, near Sevilla, on the main road from Daiquiri to the city of Santiago de Cuba.

After this, our digging proceeded apace, and we soon had a satisfactory position entrenched from Mansura to the sea.

They thought that destroying Sheol would put an end to him, but now they realize he is firmly entrenched on Earth.

Mansoul, and to entrench himself and his men in the field without the reach of the slings of the town.

The stiffest resistance came from the last one, where the entrenched miners fought with explosives and old excavating machines.

The Germans had been driven out, it is true, but they had gone only a short distance to the east, and there, upon the banks of the Aisne, had securely entrenched themselves, venting their rage upon the City by daily bombardments.

But he held only half the plateau, and at the further end of it the Boers were strongly entrenched.

Very wisely, therefore, Wools-Sampson held the attacking Boers off with his guns and his riflemen, while every spare pair of hands was set to work entrenching the position and making it impregnable against attack.

In 1921, Billy Ingram promoted his hamburgers to an American society whose many subgroups were still deeply entrenched in and divided by their original ethnic traditions.

Macdonald, who, after pitching camp on the south side of the river, sent out strong parties across the drift to seize and entrench the Koodoosberg and some adjacent kopjes which, lying some three-quarters of a mile to the north-west of the drift formed the key of the position.