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

Nesbitt, who grew up near Rochester, N.Y., worked as a grave digger in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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

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

He lived in the swampy, disagreeable Fen, probably the child of a dragger or digger.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry