Sentence examples for a dig over from inspiring English sources

Another time, there was a story in the news about Ed at university and we knew Cameron was going to have a dig over student politics.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban leaders carried out an audacious plot on Monday to free nearly 500 fighters from southern Afghanistan's largest prison, leading them through a tunnel dug over more than five months and equipped with electricity and air pipes, which suggested that the insurgents remained formidable and wily opponents despite recent setbacks.

Living in Tokyo for the past 10 years, away from the American underground scene that he grew to resent, O'Rourke's cynical worldview seems to have mellowed, although there's still room, on the track Half Life Crisis, for a dig at over-the-hill hipsters who refuse to admit the jig is up ("You can tell from your face/ That you're a charity case").

How large would the probe be? 5. Pretend that you are a reporter, on assignment in Murmansk, Russia, where the deepest hole ever to be dug by mankind is being attempted (in reality, a successful 12 km-deep hole was dug over a period of 40 years).

It is important to have dug over the soil about a month prior to inserting the bulbs.

Calcareous ground is dug over and acorns or seedlings planted.

Three tunnels named Tom, Dick and Harry had been dug over many months in conditions of great difficulty.

The soil was dug over with 80 bags of hearty mushroom compost.

I have dug over small areas infested with the elder and sown with Pictorial Meadows' Volcanic Mix from de Jager.

Excavations in 1870 revealed the grassy lunar landscape as the site of 400 pits dug over 5,000 years ago.

The financial hole was dug over decades by politicians who passed along the cost of building and fixing the stadium, and it is getting deeper.