dug

Example Sentences

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Aesthetically, I dug Andy and Miranda’s sleek menswear looks, lots of vests and blazers with panache.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Critics dug out and posted his dissertation, which was pilloried by other academics for a simplistic chart that placed terrorism on a spectrum somewhere between “peacekeeping” and “thermonuclear war.”

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

On April 19, as search-and-rescue teams dug through the rubble for survivors, Emerson became a sought-after TV pundit.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

“There is the striking fact about gold that every ounce of gold that has ever been dug out of the ground and pounded into an earring or a coin still exists,” says H.W.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

How funny that we dug up all that gold, but we could never afford to buy it back.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff