DITCH in a Sentence
Learn DITCH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
55 example sentences for DITCH, such as:
1. I decided to ditch the sofa bed.
2. The car slipped sideways into the ditch.
3. The water was out, and the ditch a bed of mud.
4. My headlights shone over a broad ditch of water.
5. One more pull will bring the car out of the ditch.
2. The car slipped sideways into the ditch.
3. The water was out, and the ditch a bed of mud.
4. My headlights shone over a broad ditch of water.
5. One more pull will bring the car out of the ditch.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DITCH
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ditch
n. any small natural waterway
v. cut a trench in, as for drainage
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1 But the brig, frigate or what they call it, for I've no head for sea terms, never crossed a ditch without saying the Lord's Prayer backwards, struck a rock.
2 I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty.
3 Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.
4 A deep fosse, or ditch, was drawn round the whole building, and filled with water from a neighbouring stream.
5 The chair charged in a sick lurch sideways at the ditch.
6 She crept in sheer misery through the holly and through the wooden fence, stumbled down the little ditch and up into the lane, where Hilda was just getting out of the car in vexation.
7 The water was out, and the ditch a bed of mud.
8 Missing his aim, he fell into the ditch, turning completely over as he went; and striking his head against a stone, dashed out his brains.
9 It showed the barrow to be the segment of a globe, as perfect as on the day when it was thrown up, even the little ditch remaining from which the earth was dug.
10 Outside was a ditch, dry except immediately under the fire, where there was a large pool, bearded all round by heather and rushes.
11 On drawing near to the furze-covered bank and ditch which fortified the captain's dwelling he could hear voices within, signifying that operations had been already begun.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
12 At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
13 I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway.
14 He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there waited until the passers-by were at a distance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15 The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.
Example Sentence:
1 I decided to ditch the sofa bed.
2 My headlights shone over a broad ditch of water.
3 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
4 It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
5 The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.
6 The water flows into the ditch at the edge of the rice field.
7 The flood on the road eventually drained off into the ditch.
8 One more pull will bring the car out of the ditch.
9 This village needs a deep ditch or channel to run water after a prolonged downpour.
10 John asked what made her late getting home, and heard Jo embroider her account with tales of runaway horses and rescuing people from a ditch.
11 The car slipped sideways into the ditch.