Sentence examples for digging a moat from inspiring English sources

The Zapatistas have survived the government's counterattacks in similar fashion, digging a moat of international support that army troops dare not cross.

Whether the arrangement was a testament to Lil Wayne's open mind or the sign of a young prince digging a moat around his castle was tough to tell.

A chic young woman and a little girl pedaled their bikes into a private pavilion where a 5-year-old boy was diligently digging a moat in the gravel.

To confront the Spanish Army, they were detached along the village of Borgerhout, which they had fortified by digging a moat and building an earth rampart around the village, from the bridge of Deurne over the Groot Schijn stream, which flowed into the Scheldt, to the road of Voetweg, which ran parallel to the canal of Herentals.

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.

IT would seem more than inconvenient to build a fence and dig a moat around the ball field to keep unruly fans at bay.

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".

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.

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.

"We're not trying to dig a moat and live in our cabin in the woods," she says.