Thesaurus / ditch
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A sheriff’s deputy had little trouble finding him — the man had passed out drunk in a nearby ditch with an open box of Reese’s Pieces.
HOW COPS WHO USE FORCE AND EVEN KILL CAN HIDE THEIR NAMES FROM THE PUBLICBY KENNY JACOBY, USA TODAY AND RYAN GABRIELSON, PROPUBLICAOCTOBER 29, 2020PROPUBLICAMcEnany clarified that the ballots were found in a ditch in Wisconsin.
KAYLEIGH MCENANY’S FIRST POST-DEBATE BRIEFING GOES OFF THE RAILSAARON BLAKEOCTOBER 1, 2020WASHINGTON POSTYou are ignoring the problem here, which is last week in Pennsylvania, you had ballots found in a ditch.
KAYLEIGH MCENANY’S FIRST POST-DEBATE BRIEFING GOES OFF THE RAILSAARON BLAKEOCTOBER 1, 2020WASHINGTON POSTSpecially equipped drones flying over a Kansas cattle ranch have detected the buried remnants of a horseshoe-shaped ditch made more than 400 years ago by ancestors of today’s Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, scientists say.
DRONES FIND SIGNS OF A NATIVE AMERICAN ‘GREAT SETTLEMENT’ BENEATH A KANSAS PASTUREBRUCE BOWERSEPTEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe newly discovered earthwork, a 2-meter-wide ditch that forms a semicircle about 50 meters across, is similar to other circular earthworks known as council circles.
DRONES FIND SIGNS OF A NATIVE AMERICAN ‘GREAT SETTLEMENT’ BENEATH A KANSAS PASTUREBRUCE BOWERSEPTEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWSIt was encircled by a ditch, but the drawbridge was down, and the rust on its chains argued that long had it been so.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI"Mother would be awfully cross if you walked through that ditch," says Judy, continuing a conversation.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGHe gripped Shiv's shoulder convulsively, nearly sending his own car into the ditch by so doing.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSWe cut over the fields at the back with him between usstraight as the crow fliesthrough hedge and ditch.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENSThen I ditch from the lake, and I am the proud owner of a large tract of valuable irrigated land.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONWORDS RELATED TO DITCH
- abscond
- bail out
- bound
- cop out
- cut loose
- cut out
- dart
- dash
- ditch
- drop out
- dump
- escape
- flee
- flight
- fly
- hightail
- hotfoot
- hurtle
- jump
- kiss goodbye
- leap
- leave flat
- leave high and dry
- leave holding the bag
- leave in the lurch
- make a break for it
- make off
- make tracks
- opt out
- run like scared rabbit
- run out on
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- skedaddle
- skip
- split
- spring
- sprint
- start
- startle
- step on it
- take flight
- take off
- walk out on
- approaches
- aqueducts
- arroyos
- arteries
- avenues
- canals
- canyons
- carriers
- chambers
- chases
- conduits
- courses
- digs
- ditches
- ducts
- flutings
- furrows
- gouges
- grooves
- gullies
- gutters
- mains
- means
- media
- passages
- passes
- pipes
- raceways
- routes
- runways
- sewers
- slits
- sounds
- straits
- tideways
- troughs
- tubes
- tunnels
- veins
- watercourses
- ways
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