wide ditch
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
Used to describe a ditch that is broad from side to side.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The farmer dug a wide ditch to irrigate his crops.
- A wide ditch separates the property from the main road.
- They had to build a temporary bridge to get the machinery across the wide ditch.
- The ancient fort was surrounded by a deep and wide ditch for protection.
- Be careful when you're playing near that wide ditch; it's full of water after the rain.
- The car skidded off the road and ended up in a wide ditch.
- Engineers are planning to construct a wide ditch as part of the new flood defense system.
- We followed the path alongside a wide ditch that ran for miles through the countryside.
- If the ditch weren't so wide, the fox could have easily jumped across.
- A wide ditch, overgrown with weeds, marked the old boundary of the village.