Sentence examples for attempt to dig from inspiring English sources

Everything Cope has done, since fleeing the Top of the Pops spotlight, is an attempt to dig his way back to what goes before, what lies beneath.

Under Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat who had been the state's top law enforcement official, investigators charged that state troopers were used in an attempt to dig up dirt on a political rival of the governor's.

Also, report on the history of the United States' attempt to dig a rival hole (the Deep Crustal Drilling Program site can be found at www.icdp-online.de/html/sites/ktb/index/).de/html/sites/ktb/index/

(Though as played by Mr. Selvas, it's hard to be entirely sure how smart David is.) Mr. Pons's attempt to dig for a deeper, more refined tear-jerker is admirable, but like its title, it's a clumsy contraption.

Lest the idea be dismissed as one man's fantasy or an attempt to dig himself out of a hole with miners, the agreement for this to be an area of special spousal interest was swiftly confirmed by the candidate herself.

In September, Emily Condon, a production manager for Serial, asked Maxim and other media outlets to give the programme space to do its job: "We'd very much appreciate if fellow journalists would give us some room and not feel the need to attempt to dig into and try to figure out what you think we might be doing".

He previously attempted to dig a tunnel.

Grieving families' attempts to dig up the dead for proper burial were punished as treason.

All his attempts to dig himself out of his considerable hole have only deepened it.Perhaps his fate was inevitable.

Microsoft attempted to dig its own moat by simply shutting out its competitors, until it was stopped by the courts.

The official claimed the email showed that an unnamed special adviser had attempted to dig dirt on Mrs Warren.