Sentence examples for attempted to dig from inspiring English sources

He previously attempted to dig a tunnel.

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.

Gustave Eiffel, not content with looming over Paris, attempted to dig the foundations for a lodge and observatory right at the summit.

In 1997, a particularly avid fan attempted to dig up Lovecraft's corpse under the headstone, but gave up after finding nothing from digging three feet.

The enormous mounds of emaciated corpses, tipped into giant burial pits; crowds of starving, disease-ridden survivors barely clinging to life; the unutterably gruesome remains of a man who had attempted to dig his way out under the wall of a burning building, only to be shot by soldiers waiting on the other side.

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

Jagland said the Nobel committee, made up of members from non-EU Norway, was not trying "to save the euro" or attempting to dig Europe out of its current hole.

Locals soon arrived on the scene after hearing the elephant and found the confused animal burying its head beneath the mud and attempting to dig its way out of the well.

Jagland said the committee, made up of members from non-EU Norway, wasn't trying "to save the euro" or attempting to dig Europe out of its current hole.

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".