diggings
Example Sentences
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High above their diggings in the mining district of Kantishna, three Alaskan prospectors stopped to catch their breath in the thin, subzero air of America’s highest peak.
From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2018
Here were the signature diggings of a giant armadillo, one dedicated earthmover.
From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2013
Founded in Kimberley, where diamond diggings established South Africa’s mining industry, De Beers was named after a nearby farm.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 4, 2011
So on a recent morning, Ben Porterfield, a consulting geologist for RX, led a reporter and a photographer down the mine shaft to the new diggings.
From New York Times • May 1, 2010
The poorest went on living in burrows of the most primitive kind, mere holes indeed, with only one window or none; while the well-to-do still constructed more luxurious versions of the simple diggings of old.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
