Sentence examples for narrow ditches from inspiring English sources

Kingfishers sit unseen in the rhynes (the narrow ditches that drain water off the land) and then fly rapidly away as I approach.

Mohamed Smain, a local representative of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, skitters down a hard hillside in the desert mountains 10 miles outside Relizane and points to a narrow ditch where water runs after the summer rains.

Comparing with non-plug initiator, square tubes crushed by narrower ditch plug initiator possess higher energy-absorption capacity, with an increase of 51.9% in SEA.

The field's narrow footpath ditches keep residents, who fear attacks, at a distance.

Here, the Sinagua built a narrow irrigation ditch to carry the water to fields nearby.

But the real bonus was no fewer than ten whinchats; five perched on bales of hay, and the others on the reeds along the rhynes – the narrow water-filled ditches that form field boundaries on the Somerset Levels.

World leaders must ditch narrow political concerns and commit to ending conflict, the head of the UN says.

We don't have to change our behaviour towards drugs but we do have to ditch narrow ideas about them.

She stands, precariously, on two narrow slats perched above a ditch and does what she needs to do.

("The only log able to bridge the ditch is very narrow at the end; I have bad balance; I would be seriously injured if I fell off the log.

The road, narrow and swooping, shouldered by deep ditches of grass, felt like a private bike track, riders shoulder to shoulder across half its width.