digging

Example Sentences

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If you’re like me, you find yourself digging for passwords you can’t remember to accounts you don’t know the name of.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Families are digging in the rubble with their bare hands in La Guaira, the coastal region which is one of the areas most badly affected.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

On Friday, Venezuelans welcomed the arrival of foreign aid workers, who were seen digging through the vast piles of collapsed concrete.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

Christine Devin, who arrived in 1974 after travelling overland on the hippie trail from Paris, remembers digging wells, irrigating the land and everyone pitching in to build houses and communal buildings like the solar kitchen.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Instead, he’d thrown himself into keeping the mushroom alive: fertilizing the surrounding trees so they’d offer more shade, digging tiny channels to direct rainwater, building a fence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman