digging

Example Sentences

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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

Boliek, the North Carolina state auditor, said artificial intelligence is aiding his team’s digging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But if you start digging under the surface, deeper than the symbolic Freemasonry and all, you may never find bottom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Then he added, digging himself into a deeper hole: “But I think it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else.”

From Slate • May 18, 2026

She tells us about the archaeological findings and how they’re still digging around the synagogue and in the old town, looking for more clues about the Jews who once lived in Toledo.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar