Example sentences for: ditches

How can you use “ditches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The stunning images of the Antietam dead, lying in ditches where they fell, are the work (published under Brady's name) of his brilliant assistants Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan.

  • Households were considered to have engaged in multiple mosquito protection measures if at least three of the following measures were reportedly used: coils, bednets, screening of windows and eaves, repellents, clearing debris from drains and ditches, burning of organic material, or insecticides.

  • The lines take a dramatic route through ditches cut through Princes Street Gardens and under the Mound (in the National Gallery you can feel a faint movement as the trains travel underneath).

  • [ 5 ] identified market-garden wells as anopheline larval sites in Dakar, Senegal, and Trappe and Zoulani [ 6 ] found ditches, gutters and tyre tracks with anopheline larvae in Brazzaville.

  • Tom Waits' first album in six years, which ditches the junkyard noise experimentation of his previous releases for a blues approach, gets passable reviews from Rolling Sone and Spin . "Waits seems to have peaked as a songwriter with 1985's Rain Dogs ," writes Ben Ratliff, "and he's still writing outtakes from that record" ( Rolling Stone ). Spin 's Sarah Vowell says, "Waits' coolie raps often feel a little fake, like he's working at having a good time."


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