Sentence examples for constructing moats from inspiring English sources

No. Were they constructing moats around their own bike sheds?

Stadiums in Latin America are constructed with moats and high fences.

While so many conductors construct a moat of inaccessibility around themselves, with entourage and trappings to match, he is eminently approachable.

He has always been in denial about his gambling addiction, but so were those who banished him and were convinced they had not only properly punished Rose, but had also constructed a moat around the institution that would keep this battering ram of a man from the front gate.

Ancient Egyptian engineers leveled the bases of pyramids by constructing a continuous moat around the perimeter.

This was a stark difference from a year ago, when Ortiz lurched into May batting under.200, driving in scant runs and constructing an imaginary moat between him and the inquiring world.

Make moats, courtyards and more towers of sand.

A pro should spend his early years constructing high walls, ramparts and moats, so that he feels secure when a dangerous foe is at the drawbridge.

From the first day Wu labored in these two different spaces, it became clear that workers in each harbored mutual antipathy, expressed in an ongoing narrative that amplified differences between them, constructing so many walls and moats separating the collectivities.

Fences were constructed around the moat in November 1885 when a local boy fell into the moat and drowned.

Once there, they began constructing siege engines and trying to fill its moat, but their progress was obstructed by the defenders' own artillery.