How to Use moat in a Sentence

moat

noun
  • That's where the moat tends to live now.
    — Agustín Guerra, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • When the hole is full, make a moat — around the stem or trunk.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
  • In my view, models are not the moat.
    — Deepak Khosla, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Build like your culture will be your moat.
    — Greg Dolan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But somebody brought up this idea of moats.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 13 June 2026
  • The moats are being drained to fill the war chests.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • When the hole is full, make a shallow moat around the stem or trunk.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • When the hole is full, make a shallow moat around the stem or trunk.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Viewed this way, Invesco's moat is wide.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Yet, the moat must still be earned—node by node, one design win at a time.
    — Michael Cannivet, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The moat is not a legal structure.
    — Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • This creates a moat that grass roots will struggle to get across.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2025
  • Costco has a moat in people's mind.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 13 June 2026
  • Data had been misused, but moats and walls had not been breached.
    — Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The flywheel, not the demo, is the moat.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The real plaza is a half-circle ringed by a moat with four bridges.
    — Griffin Shea, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Meghan couldn't curtsy backwards across the moat fast enough.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2020
  • That’s fine, up to a point and depending on where the moat comes from.
    — Walter Frick, Quartz, 2 May 2022
  • In the SaaS era, the moat was the software.
    — Ankur Shah, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Think of it like putting a drawbridge over a moat instead of a two-lane road.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The wrap-around moat catches the overfill, but my mess was too much for it.
    — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Trust will be the ultimate moat.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • The crabs would fall into the moat and Gabler was able to spear them with a stick.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Or choose to sit by the fire pit that just so happens to come surround by its own moat.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2022
  • But that moat is now gone with the Groq deal, Feldman wrote.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Code is not going to have a moat, but network effects will.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Make a small moat of soapy water around the legs of the picnic table.
    — Melanie Mannarino, Redbook, 18 June 2010
  • Each moat is made of things like network effects and switching costs.
    — NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The moat will need to be refilled frequently and kept clean.
    — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 4 June 2026
  • The moat will need to be refilled frequently and kept clean.
    — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 7 Feb. 2026

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