Sentence examples for long ditch from inspiring English sources

Skipping down four rows, she… There is a long ditch in the village of My Lai.

There is a long ditch in the village of My Lai.

The armed forces were also digging a 225-mile long ditch along the border and have deployed about 90% of drones and reconnaissance aircraft to the Syrian border, the military said.

Her images show the long ditch where the American lieutenant William L. Calley ordered dozens killed, the memorials and mass grave that mark the site of the slaughter, and survivors like Pham Thanh Cong, the museum's director, who was eleven years old when his mother and four siblings were killed.

After being relocated to the Camp Verde Reservation, on the Verde River near Camp Verde, the Yavapai there began to construct irrigation systems (including a five-mile (8 km) long ditch) that functioned well enough to reap sufficient harvests, making the tribe relatively self-sufficient.

In the entrepreneurial world, women have long ditched the idea of the macho businesswoman in grey trouser suit and shirt.

The Flyers have long ditched their underdog label, writes Scott Burnside of ESPN.com, and Brian Cazeneuve of SI.com writes that they earned their way into the finals with pure hard work.

Working communally, the villagers built stone walls to terrace the hillside, and they dug long ditches along the slopes to halt the wash of rainwater that dragged the soil from the mountains.

And it looks like that will continue into the second season: By now, Zoe has long ditched the newspaper for a Politico-type online venture called Slugline, and she and her colleagues appear to be hot on Underwood's trail relating to the murder of a congressman.

This battle was an example of trench warfare, where long ditches or 'trenches' were dug in the ground.

For the people living here, the hurriedly constructed fort was evidently intended as a defensive work in response to a very real threat". The strength of the theory depends in part on further excavations yet to be completed, with only 10 metres of the 400 metre-long ditch so far investigated.