auger

Example Sentences

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They pull out the auger and take a sample of the excavated dirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

In both sun and rain, he repeatedly bores into the ground with a hand-held auger to gauge the quality of the soil, feeling, smelling and all but tasting the dirt.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

The drill machine, called an auger, was damaged as it was being pulled out of the nearly 47-meter pipe inserted to bring out the trapped workers, after hitting an obstacle on Friday.

From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2023

An American-made auger drill was flown in from across the country to drill through the debris, after excavators failed to clear the thick mound of soil and rock.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2023

It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor