How To Use Ditch In A Sentence

He did stand a long way off the odd ditch but once there was a little less gas in the tank he was really good. Times, Sunday Times
This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch.
Ditch your mascara, use your fingers rather than a brush and don't forget to smudge your lipstick. Times, Sunday Times
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.

Irvine has no plans to ditch all his luxuries. Times, Sunday Times
The landscape was well ordered with fields defined by hedges and ditches, trackways linking settlements, and unenclosed grazing areas beyond the more intensively used enclosed land.
Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
A memo from March 1988 revealed the project was to be ditched because it "contravened" statements from ministers saying UFOs did not pose a threat to the UK. Undefined
Nicola is unconscious, hidden in a ditch by the road. The Sun
Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax.
But here we are, close to the ditch, and I do not see my friend the pontooner. The Country Doctor
If you want to ditch school and come over to hang out with me, they why should I stop you?
The birds spread across a rising slope of snow furrowed with ditches worn by thousands of penguin feet.
A child who suffered multiple injuries in a road traffic accident in Italy was given subcutaneous injections of nerve growth factor in a last ditch effort to save an ischaemic leg.
A small baobab tree is growing out of the filth in the middle of the concrete-lined ditch.
Everybody is athletic enough to make that last-ditch tackle or cover that gap when someone is a bit tired.
Henry the VIII actually never amounted to anything and would not have made a good ditchdigger... Archive 2005-10-01
That necessary ditching, in all likelihood, will now be done in time for the next election.
Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
Their roads were highways, raised up on a cambered bank of material dug from roadside ditches.
Although there is a little train which can take you around, we found the dusk walks more interesting, with only a ditch (which disappeared in the dark) to separate us from the animals which were just metres away ... such as cheetahs, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, tapirs, hyenas, etc. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
It has a carbon fibre bonnet, the rear windows are plastic and the radio and air-con are ditched. The Sun
Specialist rescue units were called in a last-ditch effort to save him. The Sun
And what about her emotional strain upon being ditched?
The lowest corner of this ditch should lead to a soakaway pit. Chapter 3
So, ditch those dowdy greys and dip a toe in the new blues. Times, Sunday Times
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Bowditch: american mathematician and astronomer noted for his works concerning navigation.
And anyway, who would want to admit to living in Redditch? Home Secretary Admits Expenses Error
With Fiver beside him, he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope.
LightSquared Inc. may seek to exchange its wireless airwave licenses for similar ones operated by the U.S. Department of Defense in a last-ditch effort to revive its mobile broadband service, according to people familiar with the company's plans. Falcone's Plan B: Swapping Airwaves
Next time you get a memo to ditch the tie, maybe leave the shirt at home, too. Times, Sunday Times
I slipped on the severed shank of a buffalo and fell hard into a ditch.
The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer antlers to loosen the underlying chalk.
The victim of the motorcycle theft can be heard cursing the robber as he lies bleeding in the road by the ditched bike. Times, Sunday Times
Near the crossing of a canal she saw a zanjero turning the water through a new delivery gate into a new ditch, and checking El The Winning of Barbara Worth
As Fine Gael flatlined in the opinion polls, Bruton was ditched as party leader in favour of Michael Noonan.
Other key results to watch involve wards or county divisions which match MPs 'constituencies, such as Redditch for Evening Standard - Home
The following day a 50,000 rigid hull inflatable boat was found ditched on the shore. The Sun
When the blustering wind and swirling snow make sledding and building snowmen feel like work, ditch your icy mittens and spend the afternoon by a warm stove, sipping hot chocolate and munching on cookies.
She does look warm and pretty next to pasty Edward, but his palid complexion is just frightening here. the previous poster was much more appealling, alluring, and more likely for viewers to actually ditch their old movies and take this one. ilovethecullens (10/9/2008 5: 19: 17 PM) i dont really like it, they could've done a lot better Final ‘Twilight’ Poster Hits Net. What Do You Think? » MTV Movies Blog
The Guardian's US journalists on Twitter In the UK, the rightwing Tories worked to ditch what they called the 'nasty party' image Did they export it over here? The Guardian World News
Field boundary ditches are shown by continuous lines. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Your ditch is ahead of you come November and I can't wait until you fall in. Cantor hits Dems on taxes, spending
Never step over fences, jump ditches, or make other awkward or unbalanced moves while holding a loaded firearm.
It also said that it was blocking old ditches that caused damage to peatland. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps it would be best in such shows to ditch relationships entirely, making the heroine into a female James Bond who uses and discards men or a female gunslinger type who lives celibately, but each of those has problems of its own. Good News, Bad News
And if you are anywhere below that level, you are going to get water in Houston proper, because of those drainage ditches that they call bayous and we will watch those go up all night tonight, 100-mile-per-hour, maybe 95 - mile-per-hour winds in downtown Houston. CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008
Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
From a system design standpoint, it would be much cheaper and more efficient to ditch the daughtercard entirely, and put all of the compute hardware, both scalar (CPU) and vector Ars Technica
In fact Bowditch loved to carry out complex mathematical computations and the task of checking and correcting Moore's work was one he greatly enjoyed.
This change of course is a last-ditch bid to wrest that influence back. Times, Sunday Times
He is thought to be considering a last-ditch diplomatic effort to curb construction before January. Times, Sunday Times
Given the choice of landing in unfriendly Syria or ditching, he was forced to make a cutter landing at night, and he hasn't forgotten.
ditch the land to drain it
The horrified pair then saw his overturned car in a ditch - and discovered his lifeless body inside. The Sun
There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water.
Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete, or ditches.
At right, the redoubt has opposed caponiers or ‘flanking angles’ designed to allow the defenders to fire into the ditches.
He inquired after his wife and the ranch, commenting upon the work on the irrigating ditch.
The ‘secret location’ plan is clearly a non-starter and should be ditched immediately.
The greenish yellow marsh meadow locust prefers to sing on hot, quiet forenoons from moist ditches and grassy banks.
She fell asleep at the wheel, rolled her sports car, and ended up in a ditch.
We did our laundry with sewer water from a ditch that came out of a public bathhouse.
Three of his sketches were drawn under fire while sitting in a sewage ditch in a poppy field. Times, Sunday Times
His father worked for the nearby farms, doing ditching and draining, while his mother was an auxiliary nurse.
Peter and Helen Walsh were among the four on board that lost their lives when the plane ditched into the sea in thick fog.
Traditional sitcoms, in particular, have fallen out of fashion as networks ditched the laugh track in recent years for "dramedies" such as "Desperate Housewives" and fresher formats in the vein of the mock documentary "The Office. A Nerdy Comedy's Winning Formula
Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks.
Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
The shock of being ditched from the stock exchange seems to have worked wonders for its sleepy management and forced it to make changes.
MODs lay minefields, dig AT ditches, emplace demolitions, and create other obstacles, such as abatis or log cribs to block forest roads. FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support
Also in the barrow ditches were woodchips and offcuts from the construction of the mound's timber revetment.
The only way both of these principles can be true is if we ditch many of our notions of time and space.
It was a dirt road bordered by a dry ditch.
He was a docker, living in Artillery Lane off Bishopsgate, not far from Houndsditch.
Want to ditch your face powder now the weather's warmer? The Sun
Blonde, petite and attractive, Thompson had ditched her usual blue or black power-suit in favour of a pink jacket with matching high heels and a black floaty skirt.
As the Army National Guard around the nation evolves into a 21st-century fighting force, units are ditching many of their older buildings - and the name armory - for more modern digs dubbed "readiness centers. WCAX - Local News
You'll be driving along a lovely country road looking for wild flowers and admiring the scenery and there will be a huge pile of TVs, toasters, irons, computers, washing machines, fridges in a ditch.
Field boundary ditches are shown by continuous lines. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
The Street Maintenance Division will patch large chuckholes to eliminate traffic hazards in substandard public streets and clean adjacent ditches, but will not resurface the street.
To her big surprise, she actually managed to get her car out of the ditch within moments.
Rat-tailed maggot larvae may be found in drains, waste waters, liquid manure, slurry tanks or ditches.
Hundreds of staff have been fired and various routes have been ditched to make the deal possible. The Sun
It might be better to make a new year resolution to ditch the banks and building societies completely. Times, Sunday Times
The mimic finally stumbled upon a vacant hole and squeezed inside; in a last ditch effort at threat display, it extended two sinuous tentacles 180 degrees apart, mimicking a snake!
Open ditches drain very efficiently.
The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too. The Invisible Man
Yet if he were to die tomorrow in a jeep accident, drowning in ditch water as Mike did, it would be fundamentally indecent and mean-spirited of me to sketch such a portrait.
Many likened the incident to the "Day of Camels" clashes in Tahrir Square on Feb. 2, when allegedly paid "baltagiya," or thugs—some of whom rode horses and camels—marauded through an antiregime rally in a last-ditch effort to violently break up demonstrations without using official force. Cairo Clashes Show Backlash
The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.
Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
They found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch. Times, Sunday Times
And what other job subjects its staff to the "touch toes test", whereby the cabin services director checks to see if naked buttocks can been seen under the skirt - the VPL is the enemy of the well turned-out air hostess, so some of them simply ditch their underwear. Top stories from Times Online
I counted Bill and Megan Romersma, whose place backed up to ours and whose son, Jared, Puddles and I had ditched earlier, because there was no way we were going to get away with this if that little tattletale had come along. Chicken
For several years, since the huge successes of the Young British Artists made their once-edgy stamping grounds of Hoxton and Shoreditch wealthier but blander, emerging artists have been moving further from the centre for more affordable space. How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
By June 1806 Bowditch had read the first four of Laplace's five volumes (the fifth volume was not published by Laplace until 1825).
Time and time again, Kennedy, McNamara Varga, Agathe and Thompson flung themselves into last ditch tackles and won.
Ditch the summer's clunky ethnic beads for lady-like pearls, vintage jewellery, an old-fashioned handbag, leather gloves and a flash of stocking.
Go along with it and then ditch him as soon as possible.
Obama, his own self, can be found careening around the country like an over-caffeinated Chihuahua engaged in a last-ditch effort to sell the bill to what you might call his hesitant posse. Columbiatribune.com stories
The sheep were huddled together in a ditch.
Alternatively, the psychometric tests could be ditched altogether.
It is protected by a broad wet ditch, and in the caponiers are the magazines and store chambers of the fortress.
The motorist ditched the car and ran away from the scene. The Sun
She has ditched the extensions in favor of a fashion-forward undercut.
Everyone must pick and sleep in freezing barns, beg food and drink salty ditchwater.
Einstein ditched aether and replaced it with spacetime, which turned out to be a physical object with its own degrees of freedom (that's general relativity). About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
Three crew members returning from an attack on Genoa died after their aircraft was forced to ditch in the River Humber.
We could ditch the bureaucracy and streamline business to make it more competitive. Times, Sunday Times
Then you discover that the process has all the glamour of digging a ditch.
The chariot had been placed in a large oval pit in the centre of a square ditched enclosure.
Jen just completely ditched Ryan, which really was messed up of her.
-- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
It seems companies are ditching customer-facing ebusiness and instead adopting systems aimed at suppliers and employees.
We use a plank to cross the ditch.
They tended their fields and repaired the drainage ditches which had been destroyed by avalanches. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
I'll rope my horse to your car and pull you out of the ditch.
Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners.
My husband invited me to a marriage ministry at our church as a last-ditch effort to reconcile our relationship. Christianity Today
In 1576 a businessman, James Burbage, built a playhouse, called simply The Theatre, in Shoreditch.
Its orientation, however, was curious, running diagonally across the ditch extension towards a position off-centre of the mound.
She enrolled on the training scheme as a last-ditch attempt to do something with her life.
I ditched the first saddlebag at the White Horse in Exford, Somerset, the second at Raleghs Cross Inn in the Brendon hills.
Should I ditch my family for some festive frolics? The Sun
if it were a chevy or a ford I'd suggest you ditch it -- no cool-factor for chevies or fords; Vovlo's got the cool-factor Certified
Ditches and tree roots always make the going difficult in the woodland sections at this venue.
Still, good to see they're still around, and back in the medical uniforms they briefly ditched.
We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows. The Home
In the picture are two men, almost interchangeable, working side by side as they dig a ditch.
From the ditch this running back/special teams kick return man earned his nickname.
By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void.
The president appears to have ditched his initial plan to lay out his domestic policy proposals for a second term.
By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen.
The main frontier comprises a stone foundation about 4.3m wide on which stood a turf bank up to 3m high, fronted by a berm and a ditch normally about 12m wide and 3m deep.
These words coming from a senior leader that drove a bus into a ditch is now wanting to give commentary on driving a bus. Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'
Round in a circle the widening fissure raced, ringing Lord Vulpine and all his men, penning them inside a vast ditch. A TIME OF WAR
New Hampshire, the so-called "First In The Nation" primary, is dull as ditchwater because of next-door neighbour Mitt Romney's domination there. Iowa GOP caucus 2012: Rick Santorum on the rise
My mother was once in a charabanc that went under a railway bridge in Bedfordshire and then slowly tipped over and deposited them all into a ditch. Chez Moi
But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch. Moll Flanders
The racer slued to the side and hit a ditch that Brent had not seen.
But there is still time for the papers to make last-ditch attempts to rally readers to their causes.
Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing. Fortune's Favorites
She ditched the idea of forming a team and decided to go it alone. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the gaggle were going home to dig more ditches and haul more stumps.
Because it was during school hours, the path to her house was generally empty; the ditchers usually hung out in alleys or ruins.
Helicopter rescues were ditched in bad weather. The Sun
The first and second vallum can be traced with their ditches, and there was doubtless an inner wall. The Cornwall Coast
There's no way I can get closer, not wearing summer sandals anyway, for between me and the orchid is an overgrown ditch. Country diary: South Uist
They paralleled the ditch to the highway
He then lost control of the vehicle, drove down through the ditch and back up, right into the northbound lanes on Highway 12.
Say jwest were you one of those people who anti-elitist Palin ditched during one of her book signings? Think Progress » Poll Shows Palin’s Unfavorability Ratings At All-Time High As Broder Extols Her ‘Populist’ Appeal
He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
When he was old enough John ran barefoot with his brothers to the hedge-school, then the sole means of instruction for Catholic peasant children, who on fine days conned their lessons in a dry ditch under a hedge, and in wet weather were gathered into a rough barn. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Finally got that cleared up and made it through without falling into either the hooty ditch or the thin one. From Twitter 03-14-2010
Dark and saturnine, he is a strong screen presence with natural brooding ability, and he holds things steady when a last-ditch attempt to end on a thrill causes the film to falter.
She was gagged and bound with a washing line before being dumped in a water-filled drainage ditch.
Hundreds of staff have been fired and various routes have been ditched to make the deal possible. The Sun
Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches.
More of them have broadband connections and a much larger percentage have ditched their landlines for mobile phones.
But she looked happier once she'd ditched her uncomfy heels. The Sun
Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths. Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
And she said that, at the moment, there are no plans to spread larvicide in rural ditches. Globe and Mail
Drainage Ditch: Georgetown" 1995 is a cross-section of that city's eccentric ecology, including a filthy-looking underwater habitat full of discarded tires and dog-faced fish, one with newborns—gross but poignant. An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias
That the Temple was of a _religious_, and not of a warlike nature, is proved by its ditch being withinside the agger of earth, contrary to the mode adopted in works of defence. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
Companies clinch more deals if they ditch video calls to see clients in person. The Sun
Their armored amphibious vehicle had taken fire and, making a sharp turn, plunged into a deep ditch, rendering it immobile.
Terraced farmlands irrigated by a complex network of ditches carrying water from rivers ensured reliable yields even on steep mountain slopes.
The other remedy, of course, is to ditch all home PCs - go on, just throw them out in the street and get rid of them.
In a few Ehn, as we were making our way through a corner of the camp, we would presumably encounter some contravallation, some outer lines or ditches, setup to protect the besiegers against possible attack by an outside, relieving force. Mercenaries Of Gor
They might make their own bridge over a very small stream or ditch and find out what will float underneath.
De concessione demiss, Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis. Notes on the State of Virginia
It was very much a last-ditch effort for me. Times, Sunday Times
The scenes with acker were exceptional. she should get her own show, or BETTER YET, she should ditch ‘happy town’ and stay on this show full time!!! 'Dollhouse' premiere: Lies within lies and hot geek-chic sex | EW.com
Last November an RAF Tornado crew ditched their crippled aircraft into the sea near Torness nuclear power station after staying with the jet until it was clear of populated areas.
He did stand a long way off the odd ditch but once there was a little less gas in the tank he was really good. Times, Sunday Times
If being "bulky" is an issue, why not ditch the laptop and use a GPS-enabled smartphone instead? Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010
This place is supposed to lie in the confines of Shropshire aloft vpon the top of an high hill there, enuironed with a triple rampire and ditch of great depth, hauing thrée entries into it, not directlie one against an other, but aslope. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
My headlights shone over a broad ditch of water.
_Caponniers_ are works constructed to cover the passage of the ditch from the tenaille to the gorge of the demi-lune, and also from the demi-lune to the covered way, by which communication may be maintained between the enceinte and outworks. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
Last August, Fossett set a solo balloonist duration record, flying for 12 days, 12 hours and 57 minutes before ditching on a cattle ranch in Brazil.
The berme usually left between the bottom of the parapet slope and the ditch was cut away so as to leave no level standing-place at the top of the scarp. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
A gleam of red spotted in a dark ditch reveals a spike of the orange-red berries of lords-and-ladies, or cuckoo-pint. Times, Sunday Times
A low bank and shallow ditch divides the interior of the fort, but is probably not contemporary with the use of the fort.
His two last-ditch clearances were vital. The Sun
Uncontaminated surface water run-off and rainwater from roofs shall be collected separately from slurry and shall be disposed of directly to the nearest drain, ditch, soakpit or watercourse.
These non-native species were once planted along roadsides and ditches and introduced into pastures and hayfields.
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.
Loraditch says that some of the pages who "interacted" with Foley were hesitant to report his behavior because "members of Congress, they've got the power. John Hinderaker's defense of Denny Hastert
Redditch were causing the odd moment of consternation in the City defence but Wilson's men held firm and never looked in real danger of conceding.
No sooner had we ditched neutrals for grey when along came white. Times, Sunday Times
It flashed across me in an instant that, if I could throw the horse down into the ditch, the wheels of the wagon might, perhaps, rest equipoised on each side, and, perhaps, break the horse loose from the wagon. Letters and Journals 01
But as they tear down the dirt roads in the dead of night, a truck rolls out of nowhere, they lose control, and their car ends up in a ditch.
The trails cross irrigation ditches, and one eventually winds through rainforest to more open fields.
I wouldn't have believed it if you had told me, but we left at 2 pm and did not return to Peace House until 10:30 pm after being forced to ditch the car, jump on a dala, then a public bus and later a lifti with our school driver/angel, Osca, to finally reach home exhausted and wiped. Car saga continued
Helicopter rescues were ditched in bad weather. The Sun
The vehicle hit a ditch and turned over on the driver's side.

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