Sentence examples for a moat of open from inspiring English sources

It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.

On Monday, a moat of filthy water gathered around it.

Pour a moat of oil around the edge and serve.

I only wish it weren't surrounded by a moat of flavored oil.

Two charpais lay separated by a moat of terrazzo.

She's surrounded by a moat of Nothing, dying by a thousand cuts.

A moat containing some open water typically surrounds a raised bog where water drains from the raised bog and surrounding upland.

Further changes took place in the early twentieth century, when Carl Hagenbeck designed enclosures more closely resembling a natural habitat, with concrete 'rocks', more open space and a moat instead of bars.

The outer wall, 1024 by 802 m and 4.5 m high, is surrounded by a 30 m apron of open ground and a moat 190 m wide.

In 1351, when the empire was at war with the Genoese, John VI Kantakouzenos again repaired the walls, and even opened a moat in front of the wall facing the Golden Horn.

You wouldn't have expected this from a country surrounded by a vast moat of irony.