Collocations withditch
These are words often used in combination withditch.
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deep ditch
I fell into a deep ditch and might have been there all night only a van had taken the wrong lane and found me.
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digging ditches
They spend most of their time in the fields digging ditches and cutting hedges.
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drainage ditch
The other case is more local and concerns a prohibited drainage ditch.
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irrigation ditch
There, in an irrigation ditch, they were dumped and left to die.
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roadside ditch
To gain access to the forest, it filled in the roadside ditch with rubble and tarmac.
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shallow ditch
Less than a mile from the house, the van gently eased off the road and fell on its side in a shallow ditch.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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