How do you use Moat in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like fosse or trench, plus the exact meaning.
Moat in a sentence
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Moat meaning
- A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
- An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
- A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
Using Moat
- The main meaning on this page is: A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason. | A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
- Useful related words include: fosse, trench.
- In the example corpus, moat often appears in combinations such as: the moat, moat and, economic moat.
Context around Moat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moat
- In this selection, "moat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wide, economic, kings, index, business and rated stand out and add context to how "moat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a wide moat business that and an economic moat refers to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moat" sits close to words such as abuser, acquires and agarwal, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Forres Skate Park Initiative development office Shaun Moat. (8 words)
Boris Johnson’s new home in Oxfordshire has a moat. (10 words)
Why does the International Moat Index include narrow moat rated companies in addition to wide moat companies? (17 words)
This week, in addition to flooding at Overleigh roundabout at the northern end of Wrexham Road and the Heronsway roundabout at the entrance to the Kings Moat Garden Village, there was also some standing water on the Kings Moat development itself. (41 words)
This moat, known as the Alevizov moat and having a length of convert, width of convert, and a depth of convert was lined with limestone and, in 1533, fenced on both sides with low, convert cogged-brick walls. (38 words)
After weeks of build up and the trailer for the true crime mini series being on heavy rotation, The Hunt for Raoul Moat at 9pm on Sunday, kicking off its three night takeover of the primetime slot. (37 words)
Why does the International Moat Index include narrow moat rated companies in addition to wide moat companies? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Why does the International Moat Index include narrow moat rated companies in addition to wide moat companies?
As of April 4, there were 144 U.S. wide-moat stocks meeting our criteria (up from 143 last month, as Tractor Supply's () classification got upgraded from narrow to wide-moat.
This week, in addition to flooding at Overleigh roundabout at the northern end of Wrexham Road and the Heronsway roundabout at the entrance to the Kings Moat Garden Village, there was also some standing water on the Kings Moat development itself.
They built a moat around the city for protection, and named the city ربض الخندق, rabḍ al-ḫandaq ("Castle of the Moat").
This moat, known as the Alevizov moat and having a length of convert, width of convert, and a depth of convert was lined with limestone and, in 1533, fenced on both sides with low, convert cogged-brick walls.
After weeks of build up and the trailer for the true crime mini series being on heavy rotation, The Hunt for Raoul Moat at 9pm on Sunday, kicking off its three night takeover of the primetime slot.
Although Rambus maintains a strong product-oriented moat, with a peerless pipeline of up-and-coming products, the company operates in a fast-paced environment with constant innovation.
An economic moat refers to a competitive advantage over the company’s competition to preserve market share and profits.
As demand for remote control and management increased, the castle-and-moat model grew ever more vulnerable to external attacks.
Assistant manager Jo Wainwright-Scarrott, 44, said: “I’m more boatswain than barmaid at the moment while ferrying customers across what we affectionately call our moat.
As such, I believe it makes sense for Fortinet's wide economic moat business model to deserve a premium grade as companies continue consolidating their vendors, given tighter enterprise budgets.
Atlas Copco is not only the largest company in Sweden by market capitalization, but it is also a high-quality business with a wide economic moat and a company that outperformed over several decades.
Because of this and the Moat Index’s unconstrained approach, there can be some overlap between the two indexes.
Boris Johnson’s new home in Oxfordshire has a moat.
But that includes a moat at the front of the enclosure the lions don’t use, said Greg Jackson, a BioPark spokesman.
But that's when it's time to buy stocks like $ has a wide economic moat and an A+ S&P credit rating.
Essentially, PayPal operates a wide-moat business that grows organically by adding more active accounts and waiting for the number of payment transactions to rise over time.
Finally, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance increased its position in VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF by 19.3% in the fourth quarter.
Finding ways to have a higher number of active devices across the world, whether it's phones, tablets, headsets, or cars, feeds into Apple's powerful ecosystem, making its economic moat that much stronger.
Forres Skate Park Initiative development office Shaun Moat.
Common combinations with moat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: