Sentence examples for dig a moat from inspiring English sources
IT would seem more than inconvenient to build a fence and dig a moat around the ball field to keep unruly fans at bay.
The effort to save the three-bedroom house began late last month when Mr. Petty, an auto mechanic with no flood insurance, hired an excavator to dig a moat and pile the earth on the outside rim to form a levee.
"We're not trying to dig a moat and live in our cabin in the woods," she says.
4 Seizing a few punts, he sent some of the infantry across in them, ordering them to dig a moat and build a palisade in front of it, and to receive the rest of the army.
With your shovel, dig a moat around the castles.
Dig a moat around the animal, and fill the moat with water to help cushion the animal on the abrasive sand.
Unwelcome guests A Berkshire hotel has dug a moat around its gardens to keep out unwanted visitors.
I dug a moat in front of it, to slow the first waves when they came, and built a break-wall in front of that.
The Zapatistas have survived the government's counterattacks in similar fashion, digging a moat of international support that army troops dare not cross.
As one of Mr. Murdoch's newspaper managers later described that strategy: "Rupert didn't just build a pay wall; he circled it with barbed wire, dug a moat around it and put crocodiles in the moat".
When they returned, they found that the waters had dug a moat around their house, destroyed their car and washed away their sailboat, paddleboat and rowboat, and a gardening shed full of equipment.
