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Sentence Examples Water simply passes out from the wall, falls against a flat surface and trickles into a surrounding moat. This will create a moat around City Hall's castle with maybe a drawbridge to keep electors out. The sandbags have been filled, the drawbridge raised and the moat replenished with hungry crocodiles. Heavy velvet drapes in blood red, cut a vertical moat from the outside world, and bathed the room in candle glow orange. Work has already begun on dynamiting the rocky landscape to create space for the construction of the moat. A deep trench which creates a moat around each transistor to isolate it from its neighbours lowers distortion. A young woman sat in an embrasure on one of the highest parapets overlooking the moat of the castle. Surrounded by a broad moat, the palace buildings are arranged around a great inner court. A thick murky dust covered its surface and contrasted with the radiance of the moat below. How can one be sure that the dry moat surrounding the enclosures would actually prevent the lions or the bears from jumping across? At the bottom of this chute, using his ice axe, he leapt a moat where the glacier had melted back from the rock. The island was surrounded by a moat with steep and slippery red clay sides. A little two-storey gatehouse of about 1600, also timber-framed with close studding, guards the crossing over the moat. Its castellated brown walls and four towers stood guard over a dry moat that could be flooded from the cisterns in case of an attack. Firefighters dig a moat to isolate the burning coal and then fill the trench with noncombustible material, such as rock. A bridge spans the moat from the gently sloping walk to the house entrance. There is a little moat, a shallow trough of water, all along the front lip of the stage. He wondered if that moat would have the same effect on him as spring water or rain water would. Besides a moat filled with rain water by way of the castle aqueducts, there were two walls, the lower outer and the higher inner. For media owners around the globe, China must seem like a golden castle, surrounded by a deep moat full of crocodiles. Show More Sentences Its present appearance, a picturesque ruin surrounded by a wide moat full of water lilies, masks its serious military purpose. The large pond not only provided fresh fish for the city markets but also helped keep the moat around the walls filled with water. He cried in a voice that reverberated off the castle walls and sent the water in the moat into a series of ripples. Archers were posted on the walls of the castle, easily able to pick off any enemies that wanted to try their luck at crossing the wide moat. She crept up to the base and was not surprised to find the place surrounded by a wide and probably deep moat. There the flowers are surrounded by thick tissue and, in some cases, even a protective moat filled with rainwater or the plants' own secretions. It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth. Today was the first time I walked around its tranquil little garden and surveyed its moat. The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines. The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances. You enter a plush lounge bar on street level packed with hip scenesters, and take a steel stairwell to a basement grotto ringed by a moat. The sun was shining, the sakura were blooming, and about 20,000 people lay down in the grass around the castle moat and drank themselves silly. Angkor Thom, the capital city built after the Cham sack of 1177, is surrounded by a 300-foot wide moat. He then noticed along the raised lip of the moat were a series of colored stones. The never completed keep is a great round tower divided by a moat from the inner curtain that curves inward to avoid it. I mean, with all this jingly jangly jewel stuff in our pockets, we'd make a lot of noise, even swimming in the moat. To serve, Lawrence suggests a sprinkling of wheatgerm on top, and a moat of milk. But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, bender and Patton became ever more reclusive. Even though no roads are in the way in the rear of the building, it's just as effectively sealed off from its surroundings as if it were surrounded by a moat. About 40 m in from the moat is a laterite wall, 4.5 m high, with large single entrances from the east, north, and south, and five entrances on the west. Show More Sentences I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat. This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch. Think of a castle with a deep moat and a dozen cannon on the turrets. Around the building was a deep moat with crystal sparkling water. Christine and I came and piled a huge mound of sand for a castle, adding turrets and walls and digging a moat that filled anew with every wave that reached it. The idea came to him during a storm, as he swam in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse and watched the raindrops dancing on the surface like tiny water sprites. A deep moat that surrounds the citadel has kept it from being damaged. The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board. It has a five-metre high wall, streams and a moat with an electric fence to ensure the animals do not wade on to the visitors' side or injure themselves. In the 1540s the Portuguese began building the Royal Walls of Ceuta as they are today including bastions, a navigable moat and a drawbridge. By degrees, the walk takes you to the upper deer moat and Pheasantry, and to the castle's north gate. At first glance, the restaurant looks more like a castle surrounded by a moat and a draw bridge inviting guests into the unknown. If he fails Rangers that castle he's restoring in Grantown-on-Spey will need a moat, draw bridge and portcullis. To prevent the festering ditch posing further health problems, it was ordered that the moat should be drained and filled with earth. These changes are coincident with the colonisation of the moat by hydrophytic plants. The moat surrounding the castle had become silted over the centuries since it was created despite attempts at clearing it. According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames. Mercuria Night events were held amongst a large pond, peonies rock gardens, pavilions and the Forbidden City moat. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. Over the course of time, the palisade might be replaced by a fine brick or stone wall, and the ditch serve also as a moat. Show More Sentences To reduce surface leakage, a moat lined with clay was constructed around the entire quarry. In 1156, Knjaz Yury Dolgoruky fortified the town with a timber fence and a moat. According to legend they died of starvation a few weeks later, since their brother had thrown the prison key in the castle moat. The Post Medieval building is said to have been moated, but no signs of the moat now remain. He then occupied the port and attacked the city while the population hurried for shelter behind the Morro's moat and high battlements. It was surrounded by a moat and contained the shah's palace, and his mosques and temples. The defences took the form of a moat and earthen dikes, with gates at transit points, but otherwise no masonry superstructures. A force of hundreds worked on the excavation of the moat and digging the foundations for the castle. The castle design formed an inner and an outer ward, surrounded in turn by a moat, now partially filled. At one point, he was arrested and imprisoned in Maxstoke Castle, but he escaped, swam the moat, and returned to Newbold Revel. The moat at Bear's Rails contained the manor house of Wychamere, the home of William of Wykeham while he was building the castle. Building a castle on a rock outcrop or surrounding it with a wide, deep moat helped prevent this. Fortified islands could be added to the moat, adding another layer of defence. A moat was a defensive ditch with steep sides, and could be either dry or filled with water. The brain is a castle and this is its moat, as experts have described it. There was a citadel in the old town surrounded by water and in 1940 on the east side, the moat was still wet but elsewhere had become a dry ditch. A coppice area with a wooden footbridge over the moat is situated next to a productive vegetable area supported by an orchard containing apple, pear and Victoria plum trees. Bigge, observed that the predominant type of sheep in Van Diemen's Land was a mixture of Teeswater, Leicester and Bengal, breeds raised for moat rather than wool. In the Middle Ages, Amsterdam was surrounded by a moat, called the Singel, which now forms the innermost ring in the city, and makes the city centre a horseshoe shape. There was originally a drawbridge over the moat in the north east. Show More Sentences The latrines were designed to be drained by a special system using the water from the moat, but the system does not appear to have worked well in practice. Richard's men tore the flag down and threw it in the moat of Acre. The inner ward was created during Richard the Lionheart's reign, when a moat was dug to the west of the innermost ward, effectively doubling the castle's size. This week I would ask readers to take a look around Kilmead and maybe have a wander up around the Moat of Ardscull. For a short time, after the death of Mr James Smith senior in the 1950's, the garage was leased by Mr Elliot and known as Moat House Motors. In North Conway the popular haunts include Delaney's, Horsefeathers and The Moat. The annual Nicosia Beer Fest will once again open its doors this week, on Friday at the Constanza Moat. The Moat no longer needs waterpower to run its home comforts and now provides the luxury of improved living space for a large family. Raoul Moat rots in his grave and will soon be forgotten even by the pea-brains that wanted to big him up on Facebook. He and Moat became friends through their association with Get Carter Cars, a garage in Newcastle's East End where Moat had worked as a panel beater, detectives said. A local circuit judge and a former senior police officer were guest speakers at The Warwickshire Law Society's annual dinner, held at the Stratford Moat House Hotel. Examples from Classical Literature These opened a siege by filling the moat and mining, or breaching the wall, etc. Then, on the other side of the moat there is the farm, with barns and oast houses and stables, or things like that. It stands in the Chiltern Hills near Stokenchurch and is a large square pile surrounded by a broad moat. These sides are further protected by a moat cut in the solid rock, but neither so deep nor so wide as the giant moat at Urfa. This, with some efforts and more noise than Gonzaga relished, was thrust across the moat. Corti made the passage safely, and in the road beyond the moat halted, and drove the staff of his banderole firmly in the ground. Many a Serb seditionist had seen the light of day for the last time in that old moat. Here, after a summary judgment, he was shot at night in the moat behind the guardhouse. Me she had not seen, nor did she till I darted out of my ambush, and leapt after Rupert into the moat. What a river it was now, this unbridled Salagua which had been their moat and rampart for so many years! On the contrary, the unchartered guilds were the moat numerous and influential. All the loathsome diseases were gathered into this moat to afflict the forgers and falsifiers. Proceeding to the edge of the moat, they fished up Mr. firedamp, who had missed his way back, and tumbled in. Charley got me information about the fair, and the day before it, I set out for the moat. The rectory was often surrounded by a moat, with an entrance protected by a gatehouse. He picked up his desk chair and smashed the picture window looking out over the moat on the west side. He sat down by the side of the moat, buried his face in his hands and reflected. This inclosure is protected by crenellated walls and surrounded by a moat. A somersault and Sun Wu Kung was standing before the city moat. This formed a species of penthouse, which they placed in the moat. Show More Sentences It stands in a ballium or court, surrounded by a moat and an embankment. The rectangular moat enclosing the Forbidden City was a means of separating the rest of Beijing from the home of the Emperor. In front lay the broad moat, with the moon lying upon its surface, now clear and round, now drawn lengthwise as the breeze stirred the waters. Sheet lightning flashed over the Norman keep, thunder exploded overhead and the long dry moat became a moat once more. At this moment Gurth appeared on the opposite side of the moat with the mules. The building rose from an island in the circling stream, so that this formed a perfect moat spanned by a two-arched bridge without a parapet. The moat is none so distant, and the immersion may profit you. Behind the spin, David Cameron is as much a member of the grasping Tory squirearchy as any MP with a moat. But yonder, ahead of him, something black lay athwart the moat. A crimson splash of light fell on the moat on either side of him. I should have done better to go down to the moat, and be silent. A moment later it rang home against the wall on my side of the moat. Directly facing the stage is a dance floor surrounded by a moat. The moat was dry on this side, as these were times of peace, and Arthur was further favored by a stout ivy vine which grew out from an upper window. It was worth any money to see Wemmick waving a salute to me from the other side of the moat, when we might have shaken hands across it with the greatest ease. Over the moat Will sprang, through the bushes and briars, across the swamp, over stocks and stones, up the woodland roads in long leaps like a scared jack rabbit. Moat and battlement grimace but faintly from behind their ornaments. Terry Moat for giving a lovely service which described Snowdon so well. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of moat? Words that rhyme with moat What is the past tense of moat? What is the plural of moat? What is the adjective for moat? What is the noun for moat? Translations for moat Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words MOAS moany moans moaning moaner moaned moated moats mob MOB mobbed mobbing 4-letter Words Starting With m mo moa