Sentence examples for vast moats from inspiring English sources

These stores cater to the masses, surround themselves with vast moats of parking and occupy the vanguard of automotive-oriented sprawl.

The new construction also dovetails with the authority's efforts to refashion its original blueprint, modeled on the Le Corbusier vision of "towers in the park," or soaring residential fortresses set in vast moats of green.

You wouldn't have expected this from a country surrounded by a vast moat of irony.

In that direction, the entire landscape, once wooded, rolling and green, has been transformed into a vast moat.

We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that the vast moat of the Atlantic Ocean will protect us from the flames of this fire". The numbers grew even scarier.

We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that the vast moat of the Atlantic Ocean will protect us from the flames of this fire.

It has four enclosures surrounded by a moat, a vast artificial lake, or baray, and could sustain a population of at least 100,000.

The vast system of reservoirs, canals, and moats, which was one of the most notable features of Angkor, served primarily as a means of water control and rice irrigation, although it also represented the waters of the cosmos.

But witness accounts suggested the driver had deliberately steered the vehicle more than 400 yards along the sidewalk and had rammed into a marble railing of the Jinshui Bridge, built to traverse the moat that encircles the vast imperial residence that served generations of Chinese rulers.

But the moat is so murky and vast (six Olympic swimming pools vast) that the hoped-for bloom of colour never materialises.

Little survived of the original 16th-century dwelling except its spring-fed moat, overhung by hazels, and its vast inglenook fireplace.