digging

Example Sentences

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This isn’t See’s first time digging through archives to interrogate the truth of the place where her great-grandparents Fong See and Letticie Pruett settled in 1897.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Opencast mining involves scraping rock and earth away at the surface to recover coal - creating an open pit, rather than digging deep underground.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Of course, hosting a garage sale where you offer to sell a friend’s clothes is not the same as digging into one another’s finances, but some of the same unease surfaces.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

“We’re making it too easy on kids to find excuses rather than digging deeper and putting the time and effort in,” said Alsheimer, whose daughter starts at Boston College in the fall.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

And after nearly an hour or so of digging, performed alternately by Detective Webster and Mr. Green, the five of us heard a sudden scraping.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan