Eksempler på moat

• The seven-metre-high wall that enclosed the dockyards was surrounded by a deep and wide moat.

• Across the nation windowless inward-turning shopping malls are surrounded by moat-like parking lots.

• Each hut was surrounded by a water-filled moat to exclude ants and spiders.

• Initially, the outer moat had marked its boundaries.

• With population pressure rising, some residents petitioned to fill-in the palace moat and use that land for new construction.

• Until the middle of the seventeenth century, the city magistrates' jurisdiction extended only over the area within the outer moat.

• The structure has a large central uplift surrounded by a moat and a peripheral terrain with rotated fault blocks.

• Is there a duty to drain the moat (shut off the current) in order to avoid excessive punishment?

• Our house is our castle, but it no longer needs to be surrounded by wall and moat.

• A subtle modulation of paving, a fictive moat and a cosmic dragon presiding over a water tank (for ritual cleansing) then announce the principal shrine.

• The wall and moat managed to prevent the theft of materials and tools, and the 'maestranza' from shirking their duties.

• This is the moat useful analogy for engineers, since it is capable of yielding fairly precise quantitative information and it can be applied to a wide variety of problems.

• There must be no stagnant moat encircling it, no unscaleable wall around it.

• I am genuinely bewildered by the idea that it is safer to be in a trough or a moat.

• It is the site of a mediaeval manor house and moat.