Sentence examples for arrived to dig from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(1)

The phrase "arrived to dig" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would typically be "arrived to dig" if it is meant to indicate the purpose of arriving.
Example: "They arrived to dig a trench for the new pipeline."
Alternatives: "came to dig" or "arrived for digging."

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As the mokki neared completion and workers arrived to dig a utilities trench, I kept up the ruse with my wife, telling her they were there to put in electrical wiring.

As a young man, Willem Hans spent years clocking in miners as they arrived to dig and sift for diamonds at the Alexkor mine, a state-owned colossus on a plot of Atlantic coastline 10 times the size of Manhattan.

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And as I licked the syrupy, golden apple drips from my fingers, I was grateful I hadn't baked a whole cake because I didn't have to wait for my guests to arrive to dig in.

A few minutes later, the police arrived to help dig out the milk truck and, slowly, the intersection cleared.

Mr. Zuberi arrives, ready to dig for more information on the artworks, which depict scenes from a relocation camp and are signed by a Geo.

As the drinks flowed and hors d'oeuvres were passed, more and more people arrived to check out the new digs.

"We'd like to say thank you to everybody who's actually arrived, to those people who tried to come here and tried to dig themselves out.

An official usually visited a day or two before the bodies arrived to tell him the precise number of graves needed so that he could start digging.

Funeral arrived to graveyard.

In another unfinished story, the true tale of two sixteenth-century Cambridge undergraduates who were expelled for "magical practices" is rounded out with a nighttime visit to a witch in Fenstanton, a few miles away, where they arrive to find her newly dug grave.

Legend has him shipping his profits home in the white-walled tire of his fancy car, arriving some time later to dig it out and buy his part of paradise.

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