moat in English
Its present appearance, a picturesque ruin surrounded by a wide moat full of water lilies, masks its serious military purpose.
a moated castle
Use "moat" in a sentence
1. Fire the moat!
2. Fire the moat.
3. Why is she digging a moat around her house?
4. Boys in the boat bought buoys in the moat.
5. Moat of the students sign out on Saturday.
6. They built a moat to encompass the castle.
7. We're not building a fricking moat in our yard.
8. First, they must build a causeway across the moat.
9. The castle had a deep moat which emptied into the lake.
10. Several dark mat boats were scattered on the moat.
11. Earlier structures had central keeps surrounded by walls and moat.
12. Silently, he went down into the water and swam across the moat.
13. The new north front was built rising directly from the moat.
14. Get the rest of that gasoline in the moat right away.
15. To the south-west, a deep moat, spanned by a drawbridge, completed defences.
16. The drawbridge was raised, of course, but it was a narrow moat.
17. Heads turning away to shun the reflected glare from the frozen moat.
18. You got a 325-foot drop into a moat full of crocodiles.
19. Then King Edward I had it fortified with walls and a moat.
20. In front of the fortifications, the Patriot forces dug an 18-foot-wide moat, and between the moat and parapet they constructed a line of abatis to stall any British assault.
21. The castle draws salt water from the nearby Seto Inland Sea to fill the moat.
22. 12 Heads turning away to shun the reflected glare from the frozen moat.
23. According to Professor Ussishkin, this moat was an unprecedented feature for Biblical times.
24. I ran out on to the bridge and jumped down into the moat.
25. The far end of his cell faced the moat, where executions took place.
26. The only access to the castle was via a wooden bridge spanning the moat.
27. Richard's men tore the flag down and threw it in the moat of Acre.
28. It was ringed by a curtain wall protected by a moat spanned by a wooden drawbridge.
29. The bridge, which spans the moat, is 140 feet long and 30 feet wide.
30. As you stare across the lily covered moat to its fairytale towers you instinctively know why.
31. There was a narrow bridge across a gap that was more ravine than moat.
32. While Johannes Huber, also AfD, tweeted: 'The Bundestag should not seal itself behind a moat
33. He directs Vikki to another portal, guarded by a ghosty barrier, an evil tree, and a moat dragon.
34. Sendai Castle was built close to the river to use the river as a natural moat.
35. How Beest thou on this summer day, with thy eyes sparkling like brackish moat water? Over the Moon
36. It was surrounded by a dry moat, creating a 35-foot [11 m] drop from the fortifications.
37. The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat, but by a deep artificial lake.
38. He had a moat built around the city, constructed an irrigation and drainage system, and rebuilt the city walls.
39. For about ten minutes everything was quiet, but suddenly I heard a noise on my side of the moat.
40. It was surrounded by a 100-foot-wide moat, crossed by causeways lined by statues of soldiers and elephants.
41. + She will be restored and rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in times of distress.
42. The mounds are clearly distinguishable and surrounded by the remains of a moat which still retains water.
43. No one spoke of it but it was there, like a little moat between us, widening each day.
44. The moat is filled by sediments formed by erosion and by alluvial, evaporite and lacustrine sediments left behind by lakes.
45. The castle was surrounded by a moat, with access only available through a drawbridge The city of Palmyra was kept intact.
46. There were ten defensive towers and a dry moat lined with Counterscarps, stone edges that made it more difficult to scale
47. An Annulus is similar to a ring or a castle's moat; it is the area between two concentric circles
48. But you have to remember that when moat people voice an opinion they do it from their own perspective.
49. Otis and Violet fell in love and went to live on a millpond that they thought was a moat.
50. Counterscarp A scarp and a Counterscarp are the inner and outer sides of a ditch or moat used in fortifications