entrenched

How To Use entrenched In A Sentence

• To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
• We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people.
• There were, therefore, problems that Developments sought to solve, and in doing so had to contend with entrenched positions.
• Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.
• Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
• They spin out conservative versions of an already entrenched style, pointedly resisting the challenges presented by artists like Leonardo.
• Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
• In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
• His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
• It is not easy to change entrenched attitudes and systems the way that most of these people have.