digger

Example Sentences

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In central London, a construction digger unearths an unexploded World War II bomb, and it starts to tick.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

An AFP journalist in Nangarhar's Bihsud district said residents from around the remote and mountainous area joined rescuers in one village, using a digger and shovels to search for bodies under the rubble.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Julia, a successful businesswoman in textile design, knows that her father will be alarmed at this impetuous engagement and will want to make sure that Johnny isn’t a gold digger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

This meant they needed a large, yellow mechanical digger to break up the concrete floors and sift through the resulting rubble.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2025

The next night Seidel and a fellow digger, a young man named Heinz Jercha, crawled back to the apartment house to meet the next group of passengers.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin