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How to use moats in a sentence

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They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.
Gates were always specially protected and designed, built as guarded approaches, deafened by earth and water, scarps, counterscarps, moats.
I would make castles with turrets, moats and drawbridges in the firm white sand until the tide came in and swept them away.
It is hewn from local stone, has giant timber beams and large fireplaces, but has no turrets or moats.
All along the roads, cars beached for the onset of dark, their huddled hulks miniature bastions guarding the moats of lawns.
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
The moats have since filled in, but the interferometric radar is so subtle that it detects the change in the height of the former banks.
It was not a castle, did not need moats or peel towers, and had no fortifications, unless the owner in the late 18th cent. had a taste for mock Gothic and battlements.
He was convinced that ocean moats would never keep the Axis powers out of the Western Hemisphere.
I asked the students to consider the courtyard space, and stimulated thought about guard houses, archways, entrance ways, lower courtyards, moats and drawbridges.
We need to build castles of security along trade routes that feature security technology equivalent to the moats, drawbridges, and watch towers of that period.
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
But for some, the public reaction to moats, duck houses and nudie films has yet to sink in.
Water defences, such as moats or natural lakes, had the benefit of dictating the enemy's approach to the castle.
While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides.
They also constructed large cult centres surrounded by pales, earthworks and moats.
The Sigiriya rock fortress is surrounded by an extensive network of ramparts and moats.
Parts of the moats remain as well as the five bulwarks and the battlements.
Ostracodes were recovered from sediment cores taken in castle moats in England, Scotland, and Wales.
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The moats and glacis which surrounded it are still visible to the south, where, covered with trees, they adjoin the gardens.
Past monkeys in refurbished roundhouses and giraffes within moats turned into rock gardens.
Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating moats of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight.
A year had made a great change in the castle, also, for, where were empty moats and the crumbling of neglect, all was now orderly and well kept.
Or moats, whereon you might row with a Boate, and fish with Nettes.
They tunnelled like moles, under the moats and through the earthworks.
Of the double moats which had guarded its more warlike predecessor, the outer had been allowed to dry up, and served the humble function of a kitchen garden.
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