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Discover LudwigThe phrase "drainage ditch" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a man-made channel or trench designed for draining excess water away from an area. Example: The farmer dug a drainage ditch along the edge of his field to prevent flooding during heavy rains.
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Like corpse, drainage ditch.
Maybe in a drainage ditch.
Hydrologically speaking, the Queens Botanical Garden is a drainage ditch.
A drainage ditch challenges on the far side.
Her body was found face down in a drainage ditch.
(Lord Hogg's "moat" was in truth an overgrown drainage ditch).
Disastrous flooding prompted its conversion – desecration, some critics would say – into a glorified drainage ditch.
He was headed for the drainage ditch on the other side of the dike.
And as he trotted toward the bridge, he fell into a drainage ditch and was drenched.
When the writers arrived they were working on the drainage ditch in the arboretum pond.
35 frogs were recently taken from a drainage ditch near Gainesville, Fla .by a student.
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