digging up

Example Sentences

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BHP has significantly divested from thermal coal in recent years, but still has a stake in Australian mines digging up the fossil fuel for steelmaking.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Michael in 2014 publicly apologized after he suggested digging up dirt on the personal lives of journalists critical of Uber.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

And I admire that she never tried to stop me from digging up the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

A funeral director "deceived thousands" of people when he lied about digging up an 1,800-year-old Roman brooch.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

She pictured her grandmother with a shovel, digging up a pirate’s chest full of gold.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson