Sentence examples for huge ditch from inspiring English sources
On Monday, a huge ditch was dug and, with not even a spoken prayer, the charred, twisted remains were dumped into it and quickly covered with fresh earth.
This afternoon the army was digging a huge ditch enclosed by barbed wire coils piled high to form a barrier between Bethlehem and Gilo, a nearby East Jerusalem neighborhood, where a sprawling Jewish area has been built on land seized after the war of 1967.
Their last mission had been to fly a wounded Vietnamese boy to a civilian hospital in the city of Quang Ngai; they had spotted the youth — still alive — amid the bodies in the huge ditch at My Lai 4. Thompson had landed his helicopter near the ditch — the third time he had been on the ground that morning — and his crewmen had rescued the boy.
Unfortunately, lying in the way was a huge ditch, as one often finds in Africa.
The situation is especially infuriating because the poor state of the finances of retirees and near retirees is largely the fault of the people in both the Obama and Romney camps who steered the economy into a huge ditch.
The older villages of the Merina and Betsileo were often perched on hilltops and defended by huge ditches.
In the old city of Kashgar, Uighurs sit out in front of their ancient mud-brick homes and watch Chinese building workers dig huge ditches in front of their doors in preparation for their destruction.
For the first eight months of the camp's operation, the excavator was used to dig huge burial ditches on both sides of the gas chambers; these ditches were approximately 50 m long, 25 m wide, and 10 m deep.
According to sources close to the matter, Hinge is undergoing a huge makeover, ditching the swipe mechanic and adding a paid subscription layer to ensure folks who use it are there "for the right reasons," as they say on the Bachelor.
Archaeologists have long debated the meaning and function of Stonehenge, which, when complete, was made up of two concentric circles of stone pillars, surrounded in turn by a huge circular earthwork ditch called a cursus.
Work began at a huge pace, with ditches cut to form the basic shape of the castle, temporary wooden palisades erected and extensive water defences created by damming a local stream.
