Sentence examples for being used to dig from inspiring English sources
Reporting in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said that rather than being used to dig in hard, rocky soil, the tools showed signs of having been used to break up termite mounds.
Heavy machinery was being used to dig dozens of graves at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, not far from the site of the second mosque that was attacked.
Methods soon became more intrusive, however, with machinery and dynamite being used to dig into hard rock and lethal chemicals like mercury and cyanide used to help process the crushed ore.
Backhoes and excavators were used to dig mass graves and fill them with corpses.
Describes a machine called the mole, which is used to dig tubes for subways and Long Island Railroad trains.
Like a blunt, miniature sickle it can be used to dig out couch grass roots intact, and to delicately remove weeds growing right next to vegetable seedlings.
In many local minds, Exxon Mobil bears some responsibility, not least because it pays the soldiers that guard its sites and allows them to use its earthmoving equipment, which human rights groups say has been used to dig mass graves.
The suit contends, for example, that Exxon Mobil provided barracks where the military tortured detainees and lent heavy equipment like excavators that, the suit says, were used to dig mass graves.
Deposits in the bottom of the ditch included antler picks, which were used to dig the ditch itself, as well as bones of cattle and deer that were already centuries old when they were placed there.
Images of the dune sent back by the rover's panoramic camera, or Pancam, already indicate that all six wheels dug more deeply into the soil than any previous intentional wheel-trenching activity (in which only one wheel is used to dig a shallower hole).
Most notable was the use of more than 100 steam shovels, many of which were used to dig the Culebra Cut, later called Gaillard Cut after David du Bose Gaillard, the American engineer who supervised its construction until his death in 1913.
