Sentence examples for surrounding moat from inspiring English sources

Later, the surrounding moat was filled in.

In the middle of the divide stands the outrageous d'Este castle: half palace, half fortress, even down to its surrounding moat.

Kingdom City, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), recycles the Burj's planning formula down to the surrounding moat and towers – only bigger.

Below, the broad pathway leading from the surrounding moat and entry gate to the base of the rock fortress passes through a wonderful water garden, about half of which has been restored by archaeologists.

Although the surrounding moat was bone dry, used these days for events like concerts, a cannon and catapults stand sentry in the courtyard, reminders of the town's most vivid memory.

A surrounding moat wall can function as a stop to limit isolation system displacements and prevent bearing failure under beyond design basis shaking.

Feeling spry after dinner, you might stay on at the bar, where the bartender pours Korea's national spirit, soju, into a small glass that overflows into a surrounding pine moat: a shot in a box.

Photographs of servicemen have been placed on the railings that surround the moat.

A simple, 12-foot (3.6 m) high bailey wall, with minimal defensive value, surrounded the moat, which was in contrast wide, 10-foot (3 m) deep, and would have been difficult for an attacker to drain.

The squalid moat surrounding one building is lidded with moss.

Chairman Alexandra Cringus came up with the 'innovative' concept of creating a moat surrounding the pitch, packed with fully-grown crocodiles.