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scooping
noun as in excavation
noun as in mining
Strongest match
Strong matches
- boring
- burrowing
- digging
- hollowing
- pitting
- prospecting
- quarrying
- tapping
- tunneling
- unearthing
Example Sentences
Rising up from scooping bay, the steep topography—hemmed by hills of evergreens—promises panoramas at practically every turn.
Hillary Clinton is scooping up millions in speaking fees while positioning herself for a White House run.
American Hustle was the other big winner, scooping 10 nominations, the same number as 12 Years A Slave.
At home, I start the day by scooping out a couple of heaping tablespoons of Starbucks espresso roast into my Breville machine.
But Hancock also loves scooping up and publishing government memoranda—“gems of the public domain,” as he calls them.
I wanted to please him, because we were now cracking the melons and scooping out their luscious hearts.
They walked across the hollow above the collar bone until they stood just below the great scooping shell of the ear.
Mighty near, said Kentucky; you just sat into the game in time to stop em scooping the pool, sir.
Everything, and she dug impatiently in the sand with scooping fingers—everything has been left at a tag-end.
He flushed through the tan, and scooping some dry leaves together into a bed, took off his coat and folded it for a pillow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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