Sentence examples for ditch about from inspiring English sources

Directly behind the third fence was a ditch about eight feet wide and three feet deep.

Shacks misassembled from rusty tin and cardboard were lined up above a ditch, about to tumble in.

It landed upright in a ditch about five miles west of Charleston, near where Mr. Freeman owns a home.

There was a Chevy pickup with an extra cab in a ditch about a mile up the road on State Highway 43/603.

The audit, done by a company hired by Del Monte Fresh Produce, found that a pipe containing raw sewage and wastewater emptied into an open ditch about 110 yards from the farm's packing house.

Near Homs I saw one tank sitting by the side of the road, guarding a broad, freshly dug ditch about 100 yards long by the side of the highway.

From the top of the ramparts to the bottom of the ditch is about 16 m.

In thinking about the Holocaust, we have grown accustomed to images of the Nazis' victims: shadowy naked figures on the edge of ditches about to be dispatched by the SS-Einsatzgruppen; huddled wide-eyed children; skeletal human simulacra; piles of bones.

Nicholls found a series of defensive ditches about 4 meters deep, running in lines.

Throughout the night the Japanese had dug a number of anti-tank ditches, about 6 feet wide and 4 feet deep, which Australian engineers had to fill before the tanks could continue.

Reverend Culvert told him about the Roman earthenware found in the scrubland, close to the river that the villagers called the Ditch; and about the carved flints that lay about in the fields for picking up.