What is "ditches"

Usage examples of "ditches".

The ditches are to block the advance of German tanks from the west of the city.

So long as we dig the ditches, no one cares which brigade we are next to or where we dug the day before.

She estimated that the nearest ditches were about eight meters wide and three or four meters deep.

I guess it won’t hurt a historian to go out with a work brigade and dig ditches for a day.

They rode out to the antitank ditches with everyone else and spent the morning digging together.

The antitank ditches are being dug straight west of Moscow, but still have military patrols behind them.

Ahead of them, down a long but very gentle slope, work brigades dug ditches with shovels.

All the workers began climbing wearily out of the ditches and plodding toward the trucks.

They were spread out along the length of the ditches and have not returned to Moscow.

Once we are past the ditches, I can slow down to conserve gasoline usage and still maintain greater speed than MC 4 has even at his fastest.

They reached the same unpaved road that they had taken to the ditches earlier.

He and his partner are almost certainly going to look for MC 4 at the ditches and he simply assumes that we are doing the same.

The canal had gone eastward as far as practical, but it still carried a good head of water, in spite of the smaller ditches draining from it, and Brumbaugh suggested, “Let’s lead it back west,” and he encouraged the surveyors to find new levels which would permit the water to return toward its point of origin.

He could see no reason why Venneford should have spent so much money bringing water onto land that didn’t need it, and the more he saw of the ditches and the useless meadows, the more concerned he became, until Skimmerhorn prevailed upon him to visit Potato Brumbaugh, who reacted with enthusiasm: “Mr.

This was bonanza time, when the last of the great irrigation ditches were being dug, when desert land was being made to blossom.