(1) Besides a moat filled with rain water by way of the castle aqueducts, there were two walls, the lower outer and the higher inner.

(2) For media owners around the globe, China must seem like a golden castle, surrounded by a deep moat full of crocodiles.

(3) She crept up to the base and was not surprised to find the place surrounded by a wide and probably deep moat .

(4) He cried in a voice that reverberated off the castle walls and sent the water in the moat into a series of ripples.

(5) Archers were posted on the walls of the castle, easily able to pick off any enemies that wanted to try their luck at crossing the wide moat .

(6) There the flowers are surrounded by thick tissue and, in some cases, even a protective moat filled with rainwater or the plants' own secretions.

(7) He wondered if that moat would have the same effect on him as spring water or rain water would.

(8) Think of a castle with a deep moat and a dozen cannon on the turrets.

(9) It refers to the competitive advantage that a company has over other firms in its industry; the wider the moat , the more attractive the company.

(10) Around the building was a deep moat with crystal sparkling water.

(11) This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch.

(12) A moat of icy water separates them from civilisation.

(13) The large pond not only provided fresh fish for the city markets but also helped keep the moat around the walls filled with water.

(14) The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.

(15) It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth.

(16) I thought of water, like a moat , but that was not possible.

(17) Its present appearance, a picturesque ruin surrounded by a wide moat full of water lilies, masks its serious military purpose.

(18) They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages.

(19) Thornham Hall was a perfect Tudor red brick moated hall with a classic straight and gated drive through the Park.

(20) The scheme includes restoration of hedges around a moated field south of the village which is thought to be the site of the home of the Skipwith family in the late 14th century.