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

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

Explaining that working on the Himalayan terrain was complicated, he said that two auger drilling machines were currently being put to work.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023

So hopes that in reopening a window for people to gather and have their voices heard, the protests might auger a fresh chance for Hong Kong’s languishing pro-democracy movement.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

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