dug
Example Sentences
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Villanueva told The Times in October that firefighters returned to the burn area and “cold-trailed” an additional time, meaning they used their hands to feel for heat and dug out hot spots.
From Los Angeles Times
Harry Brook reined in his attacking instincts with 45 from 63 balls, while captain Ben Stokes dug a trench with a painstaking 45 not out from 151 deliveries.
From BBC
But it trended downward since the end of the summer, as U.S. tariffs dug in and concern grew at the slow implementation of the new fiscal stimulus.
Mr Mohammed says that his father and grandfather had dug through these plots for decades but discovered nothing more that "dust and slivers of quartz".
From BBC
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
