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Sentence Examples Essentially this ditches almost all animal agriculture except for beef and dairy products. But Mr Oswald said the breathtaking array of ditches, humps and bank was much more extensive than anyone had thought. The company will also supply airtime for another company's domestic users from early next year when it ditches another as its mobile provider. This is manifested in the elaborate defensive works of banks and ditches erected to fortify dominating hilltops. Pollutants move with the water through the saturated soil only to travel into wells, streams, and ditches. I believe I have mentioned before that we thatched the stacks with reeds cut from the ditches using a long pole scythe. All the enclosure ditches contained considerable quantities of domestic rubbish. On the other hand, conservatism has its own deep ditches, its unclimbable walls, its immutable old ideas sealed in concrete. Most rural roadways are best suited to collect water in ditches on each side. The trails cross irrigation ditches, and one eventually winds through rainforest to more open fields. Consider a complex obstacle consisting of wire, minefields, and antitank ditches. In Anna Casey's Place in the World the kids build the Race-A-Rama, a dirt bike track of immense hills and precipitous pits and ditches. In the season there would be plenty of bullrushes in the dykes and ditches in the low-lying areas with a high rainfall. Therefore, if runoff can be diverted away from it with dikes and interception ditches, sediment transport can be reduced. As we had many big ditches or dykes as we called them, the reeds were readily available. They were also carrying out routine checks of dykes, rivers and ditches in the area, and Mr Hankins said divers were on stand-by. The greenish yellow marsh meadow locust prefers to sing on hot, quiet forenoons from moist ditches and grassy banks. To further explore the location of cowbane, I followed the path of water flowing from the ditches. The rampart wall was found to be encircled by at least two deep ditches, and possibly three, with counterscarps between tern. And not to be missed are the grasses and wild plants which lend splashes of colour to the ditches and roadsides. Show More Sentences The massive structure, some 45 metres wide, was defined not by banks and ditches but by hundreds of close-set oak posts. More elderly members of the party were helped over peaty ditches to the edge of the plantation. I ran, I stumbled over bodies, fell into ditches and cut and scraped my legs till they were raw. But tall people also like 4x4s because of the headroom and the potential to drive through ditches. The east and west ditches are enfiladed by small, two storey demi caponiers whilst the main ditch is covered by a full caponier. Also in the barrow ditches were woodchips and offcuts from the construction of the mound's timber revetment. Their roads were highways, raised up on a cambered bank of material dug from roadside ditches. The wells were not drained and the ditches were filled with stagnant water. It was an unvaried terrain of grassy veld, deep erosion ditches and green pastures near the water courses. Around these parts, snowmobilers drive on the shoulders, ditches and across the foot of your driveway, like they own it or something. Nonetheless, the boundary ditches mark a significant moment in the long history of the valley. Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax. Terraced farmlands irrigated by a complex network of ditches carrying water from rivers ensured reliable yields even on steep mountain slopes. The birds spread across a rising slope of snow furrowed with ditches worn by thousands of penguin feet. Similarly with pits, ditches, banks, graves and all those amorphous uninterpretable semi-features that abound on sites. Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches. Once the ditches have disappeared, the rhythm of tiler and slater, no hand signals, will be translated into a bag of shadows inside a furnace. Seven other accidents were also reported on the A59 in the Hessay area, with vehicles skidding into ditches. Electrical barriers, which produce an electrical field, have limited but proven use in ditches and other narrow water channels. Densely vegetated ditches with temporary standing water can be an important habitat for freshwater molluscs. Show More Sentences In the car, I keep small pots and a trowel in a cardboard box and I did dig some native plants from wet ditches for bog plants. They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages. They can also be found in places not usually frequented by shorebirds, such as drainage ditches and mud puddles. Rat-tailed maggot larvae may be found in drains, waste waters, liquid manure, slurry tanks or ditches. This is essentially the mound we see today made of chalk from the outer ditches and terracing of the adjacent slopes. Never step over fences, jump ditches, or make other awkward or unbalanced moves while holding a loaded firearm. Control jointed goatgrass in roadside ditches and other areas that may contaminate the fields. When they drain the irrigation ditches the mudbugs come out by the thousands and literally cross the street looking for water. It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls. Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis. These non-native species were once planted along roadsides and ditches and introduced into pastures and hayfields. On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts. Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks. The weatherfish most often lives in slimy waters, in old river beds and in ditches. Shrubs and bushes will be used to create the hilltop wetlands by blocking drainage ditches dug by sheep farmers. Excess stormwater then flows into traditional stormwater outfalls or ditches. Earlier excavations revealed stone ramparts, a palisade and waterlogged remains in the ditches, including what looks like a wheel and a ladder. Cuckoo pint or Lords and Ladies grows in woodlands, hedges and ditches. En route they encountered 14 ditches, all cleared without accident. She ditches her plaid knee-highs for Audrey Hepburn-style shift dresses, fur stoles, red lipstick and a bouffant. Show More Sentences The majority of the hillforts of Southern France are defended by walls or ramparts and ditches encircling hilltops which overlook important commercial or military routes. That is, until he ditches the crutches and really cuts a rug, to the delight of everyone looking on. Because we had long lengths of wide ditches where tall reeds grew in proliferation, we used to cut them using long-polled scythes and tie the stems into bundles. We can see this important change at Nosterfield Quarry, immediately to the north, where Bronze Age field ditches and single pit alignments were discovered. Firmly strapped into the bucket seat next to Chris, in one rev of the engine and a massive cloud of dust, we were off, hurtling over rocks and ditches. Can drainage ditches be stabilized against erosion by installing riprap or a rolled erosion control product immediately after they have been developed? Purple loosestrife will grow vigorously and clog irrigation canals, ditches, stream banks and reservoirs, resulting in less water available for crop production and recreation. Another measures disturbances to the earth's magnetic field caused by buried features such as some construction materials, pottery, pits, ditches and walls. After a great deal of impatiently attempting to convince Andrea to come with her, Michonne finally just ditches Woodbury alone. The people that dwelled here 8,000 years ago had learned to irrigate the land by means of canals and ditches, and had mastered the arts of agriculture. These early ditches had silted up a number of times and at one stage, metalworking had taken place in the sheltered area provided by the ditch banks. At the same time, the waters of the mighty river spill into sewers and drainage ditches and carry their untreated broth to wells used for drinking water. Then we started the drive through the bocage of Normandy, the maze of fields, hedges and ditches William the Conqueror shaped to slow down German tanks and Ford Cortinas. The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and sluices are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions. Open ditches line the streets of the neighborhood and run past overgrown lots and broken-down houses as well as freshly whitewashed cottages and one or two brand new trailers. Mermaids are supposed to abound in the ponds and ditches in this neighbourhood. Careful mothers use them as bugbears to prevent little children from going too near the water. After traipsing around the byroads in Knockleigha, peering over a few fences and clambering into a few ditches, the safari was beginning to look like a non-event. It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them. The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. Defensive walls and ditches were found from the medieval castle, as well as arch and window mouldings and numerous rubbish pits full of food remains and pottery. Show More Sentences As an added precaution, I also constructed plastic-lined and rock-filled drainage ditches on the surface to prevent water from percolating down from the surface. Locate and design feedlots or barnyards carefully to prevent surface runoff toward well heads and well recharge areas, drainage ditches, or streams. Slashed by rivers and canals, pocked with polders, meers and lakes and meshed in a web of interconnecting drainage ditches, the Netherlands are a long distance skater's dream. Sam explained that the 3,000 acres of the Nature Reserve is the largest in the English lowlands, the main area being grazing marsh divided by a network of ditches and fleets. The ditches, dikes and reed-edged fleets that crisscross the grazing marshes here are rich in invertebrates, including the scarce emerald damselfly. Many boy racers end up in ditches, after mistakenly assuming that their front-engined, front-wheel drive vehicles will behave the same way as stuff they see on television. The heavy rain we recently experienced identified a number of areas causing problems and we have cleared the debris from these gulleys and ditches. Look around and you'll find general-purpose buckets as well as buckets made specifically for digging dirt or sand or rock, cleaning ditches, or grading slopes. He requested that the dangerous dip be taken out of the road at White's Cross, Lower Meelick and that the ditches be cut back to improve visibility at this junction. Streams, creeks, and ditches were sampled using fine-meshed dip nets. Much of the work in 2004 has been concentrated at the northern end, around what seems to have been an entranceway to a substantial series of defensive banks and ditches. They're droll, yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic. Frequently the seepage water from porous, earthen ditches and the waste water from Irrigated areas pass through the subsoil of lower fields sufficiently near the surface to subirrigate them. These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades. By then, many Jacobite soldiers had dispersed in search of food, while others were asleep in ditches and outbuildings. A Middle Saxon phase with pits, possible buildings and a ditch represents phase 6 and medieval ditches and furrows dose the sequence. The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire. Large areas have been reclaimed and have a distinctive pattern of rectangular fields of dark peaty soil with deep drainage ditches. Swamps have been extensively logged, leaving canals and ditches that allow saline water to move inland. Once ditches around a castle were partially filled in, these wooden, movable towers could be pushed against the curtain wall. Show More Sentences There is evidence of ancient use with a small number of standing stones, ditches and banks having been identified. Cambering and elevation of the road above the water table enabled rain water to run off into ditches on either side. However, Henry refused to allow this, and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town. The common people used simple methods of preservation, such as digging deep ditches and trenches, brining, and salting their foods. The remains of the limites today consist of vestiges of walls, ditches, forts, fortresses and civilian settlements. Some sites were defended by ditches and banks, structures thought to have been built to defend against nomadic tribes from the steppe. It outcompetes crops, clogs irrigation ditches, spreads insect pests, and even poses a driving hazard. Where the pipeline crossed water drainage ditches it ran above ground in a concrete case. Two scour pits, large underwater ditches, formed on either side of the wreck while silt and seaweed was deposited inside the ship. Clausentum was defended by a wall and two ditches and is thought to have contained a bath house. Where there were few or no natural barriers, the villages utilized some type of fortification, including ditches and palisades. These cities were only rarely protected by simple stone walls and more usually by a combination of both walls and ditches. Walls exposed to direct cannon fire were very vulnerable, so were sunk into ditches fronted by earth slopes. Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor. Outside the town, low ground to the east and south is cut by ditches, which limit the landward approach to roads raised above ground level. These ditches can still be seen, despite some efforts to refill the ditches. Ha-ha walls are built in ditches so they keep out livestock but don't ruin the view. While the concept of ditches, ramparts, and stone walls as defensive measures is ancient, raising a motte is a medieval innovation. Contemporary defensive banks and ditches can still be seen today as a result of this. All that remains is defensive ditches and the ruins of the stone keep, towers, and part of the curtain wall. Show More Sentences The road sections A and B had shallow ditches, whereas the area near the road was covered with hydrophytic plants. Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns. The ground is drained by many streams, canals and ditches, which need regular maintenance. The ditch was continuous but had been dug in sections, like the ditches of the earlier causewayed enclosures in the area. There are some isolated ruins and two rows of building foundations, and ditches and banks which form enclosures. Most of the passages of the milecastles in the north were bricked up and causeways over the forward defensive ditches were removed. In one new unit in Baghlan Province, soldiers had been found cowering in ditches rather than fighting. Barbed wire, fences, ditches and jersey barriers may not be aesthetically desirable, but they are effective. Long ditches, some many miles in length, were dug with enclosures placed at their ends. Another project is tackling 6,500 km of drainage ditches, or grips, in the North Pennines, which is causing peat bogland to dry out. Sub groups exist for these when two or three internal ditches are present rather than one. The film that has been produced and filmed by RSPB Cymru, shows that if peatlands are restored, farmers will lose fewer sheep, which can become trapped in drainage ditches. Over a thousand had gathered at Newton, near Kettering, pulling down hedges and filling ditches, to protest against the enclosures of Thomas Tresham. The ongoing monsoon season is making things more difficult, as most of the unmetalled roads have developed ditches and pits causing greater inconvenience in commuting. Worse, the large open ditches surrounding forts of this type were an integral part of the defensive scheme, as was the covered way at the edge of the counter scarp. In Iraq, violence against the Yezidis have been reported with men being separated from women and children, then taken to ditches and brutally executed, he added. They include fencing, buildings, structures, ditches, trenches, embankments and other works, where the effect of those works is to prevent or impede access. There are signs of early occupation in the form of burial mounds and ditches as we reach Seavy Pond and our moor top track bends left across Levisham Moor. One of these groves, called the Sultanpet Tope, was intersected by deep ditches, watered from a channel running in an easterly direction about a mile from the fort. A number of closely associated small ditches or depressions provide the source waters, with an artificial grotto laid out to highlight and contain a deemed main source. Show More Sentences Metcalf believed a good road should have good foundations, be well drained and have a smooth convex surface to allow rainwater to drain quickly into ditches at the side. It is amazing how easily you can slip past nearby deer when using a ditch, but usually deadfalls clog these ditches making progress tough and noisy. Magnetometers detect minute deviations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by iron artifacts, kilns, some types of stone structures, and even ditches and middens. Are animals wallowing in mud and manure along streams, is silage leachate running down road ditches or do milk house drains discharge into streams? Our prehistoric monuments, the barrows, enclosures, hillforts and the like are, for the most part, earthen in that their material sources were engirdling ditches. These dimensions do not include the wall's ditches, berms and forts. Examples from Classical Literature Our guns added their help, and they fired many rounds down the Menin road, bracketing the ditches. Already the ditches are deep, the curtain wall of hawthorn high and impenetrable, the approaches narrow. The Red Campion is common on the banks of wayside ditches, as well as in copses and other moist and shady places. Beyond the two ditches, were trous-de-loup, or wolf-traps, from twenty to seventy feet apart. We watched it wallow into deep ditches and out, splash through a brook, and mow down trees more'n a foot thick. The area enclosed is about 20 acres, encircled by three Valla and two or three ditches. All of them had collected in the pouring rain and were watching the outfall in the ditches. Stinging nettles abound here, of the tall sort that grow so rankly on old earth heaps and in dry ditches. Three specimens from southeast of Reynosa were collected in traps set along the dikes of irrigation ditches. A trace is all that remains of a road which once ran east-west between parallel ditches, south of the row house. Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime. Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches. He shall also have the curtilage with the garden adjoining the hall on the north side enclosed as it is with hedges and ditches. The weeds that had flourished along the sides of the ditches were all dead. Blasia pusilla, which occurs commonly by ditches and streams, affords a transition to the foliose types. Your brute, your beast, your groveller in ditches, is not nearly so dangerous. All hedges and ditches to be made betwixt 'severals', evidently enclosures as distinguished from common fields. Looked me square in the eye, and told me to be careful with sidehill ditches, and so on, just as if it didn't affect him at all. I'm going to send for engineers and find what it will cost to impound water in the cordilleras and run ditches into the valley. But now, swollen with spring rains, the ditches of the Sunk were lipping to the overflow. Show More Sentences She looked in vain for the settlement, for the rugged ditches, the scattered cabins, and the unsightly heaps of gravel. This means that water meadows, ponds and ditches are being filled in and homes are being built on top. They have no ditches, but an escarp of ten feet in the lava. But the ditches below are yet green with brooklime and rushes. The grenadiers of the two regiments got near enough to the ditches and intrenchments to launch their grenades, which had but small effect. In the winter the ditches are flooded to protect the cress from frost. But how can she find ditches and pools in Grosvenor-square, my dear? 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What is the opposite of ditches? Words that rhyme with ditches What is the adjective for ditches? What is the noun for ditches? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ditcher ditched Ditch ditch dita dit ditching dite ditheism dither dithered ditherer 7-letter Words Starting With d di dit ditc ditch ditche