Sentence examples for on the ditch from inspiring English sources

She is long retired now, living with a Mexican man she met fishing one day on the ditch banks of the old lake bottom.

His name is Dean Naslund, and both his father and his grandfather worked on the ditch.

We then used indicators to evaluate the effect that the evolution of these properties has on the ditch water conveyance, herbicide retention and biodiversity conservation functions.

Taking a walk in it, I always come across tracks of wild animals on the ditch banks and on the canal bank, and I always see at least one wild animal of some kind.

And if you crouch towards the water, clouds of pond skaters teem on the surface, which remains unmoved till you stand and cast a shadow on the ditch, causing the insects to panic, sending countless ripples through the water, speeding across the flat green plain.

The wall was of turf on a stone base 15 Roman feet (4.44 metres) wide and stood perhaps 10 feet (3 metres) high; in front was a ditch up to 40 feet (12 metres) wide and 12 feet (4 metres) deep; a wide, shallow mound was formed on the ditch's north side when the material was tipped out.

A deep ditch runs on a curved line for nearly 200 yards, and on the outside of the ditch is a bank five feet high, the ditch in some places being twelve feet deep.

His grandmother was standing on the bank of the ditch.

(SI) 4.17pm Fasth's drive was a dud too, and he can only lay up in front of the ditch on the 17th.

The designers of this mass toilet apparently intended its users to balance themselves on the brink of the ditch in order to relieve themselves into it.

What else was going on at the ditch?