dug
Example Sentences
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“But you can also start to see what’s happening under the Earth’s surface, whether tunnels are being dug or nuclear materials are being moved around. This is a precursor to developing those types of capabilities.”
From Barron's
Katherine dug the phone out of her pocket and handed it over.
From Literature
He dug a vegetable garden in the rich soil at Fire Mountain’s base and planted avocados, bananas, lettuce, oranges, pineapples, strawberries, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, and bamboo for making pipes and useful things.
From Literature
For a week, Steller, who lost his home in the fire, parked his Toyota 4Runner over a recently dug trench.
From Los Angeles Times
Firearms are tested in tunnels that were dug as deep as 500 feet into the mountainside during World War II to protect production from British and American bombing raids.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
