Sentence examples for deep ditches from inspiring English sources

I thought of "the long, deep ditches" that the spirit Fitsi-fitsi was said to have built around settlements.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north.

"Twenty years ago today our country fell into deep ditches of darkness," said Rwanda's minister of foreign affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo.

As at Camp Speicher, victims were chosen because they were Shia, machine-gunned as they stood by deep ditches in which they were then buried by bulldozers.

In 1983 a 50-ha portion of the poor fen was drained through the construction of 0.9 m deep ditches spaced 40 m apart.

The road, narrow and swooping, shouldered by deep ditches of grass, felt like a private bike track, riders shoulder to shoulder across half its width.

Barrelling through a deep ditch, he started to hum a little tune.

The rest of the vehicle had flown across the highway and landed in a deep ditch.

We all ran around the corner and threw ourselves into a deep ditch.

But excavations turned up not a wall, but a wide deep ditch cut into bedrock.

The prior beta grain boundaries were found to have deep ditch-like appearance which depth increased with increasing milling time.