Sentence examples for as a ditch from inspiring English sources

Mr. Duncan worked as a ditch digger for the Peoples Gas Company, as a nightclub bouncer and even as a stripper, under the name Black Caesar.

Just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, it took eight years to build and was derided as a "ditch" by its opponents.

But when his mother became ill, he dropped out of college and worked as a ditch digger and bouncer to support her.

While working as a ditch digger, he is further confused after he exalts the blues to an African-American fellow worker, who prefers Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett to Robert Johnson.

Michael Clarke Duncan, who rose from working as a ditch digger to employ his booming bass voice and immense physical presence in many movie roles, most notably a tragic prisoner with a healing touch in the 1999 film "The Green Mile," died on Monday in Los Angeles.

A girl who starts out as a "ditch digger," can level up to a plant nursery cashier then to a gardener and eventually all the way up to a landscape architect.

2. The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden by Alain Baraton Baraton has been tending the Grand Parc de Versailles for more than 40 years, beginning as a ditch-digging gardener's assistant in 1976 and, since 1982, as its gardener-in-chief.

Also in the film, as a ditched wife, was Vanessa Redgrave, then married to Richardson.

The plan involves knocking down a viaduct and dropping the highway into a ditch as much as 40 feet deep.

Darius' royal chariot was found discarded in a ditch, as were his bow and shield.

Everyone ran as we crossed a ditch, and then a main road, into Homs.