Sentence examples for chose to dig from inspiring English sources

The Brotherhood chose to dig in, to create little enclaves of defiance.

Faced with the disappointing performance of their debut LP, they chose to dig an even deeper hole with the follow-up, Anthem of the Sun.

It's curious, on the face of it, that Spark chose to dig out a twenty-five-year-old novel to complement "Curriculum Vitae".

One reason they chose to dig deeper was to avoid the tracks the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lay down on the West Side for the extension of the No. 7 subway line.

The White House seemed to be sending a message that it would be willing to work around the Democratic power structure if it chose to dig in its heels.

It's curious, on the face of it, that Spark chose to dig out a twenty-five-year-old novel to complement "Curriculum Vitae". But the two books have in common women staking a claim in a pre-feminist workplace, and the sexual and reputational precariousness of their situation, which Spark no doubt understood was unending.

It's just this strange furrow I've chosen to dig".

You might choose to dig tunnels into the ground, a process called "lode mining" (a lode is a subterranean vein of metal-bearing ore), or – the simpler method chosen by me – you could dig in or near rivers, what's called "placer mining" (pronounced "plasser") to try to find gold washed down from quartz veins running through mountain ranges.

If a shrub is dead, dig it out now. (If you really want to save the job until winter, at least cut it right down out of sight). If you do choose to dig it out now and refresh the soil with compost, you could fill the gap with colour for this year's late summer: cosmos, tall salvias, dahlias.

These delays increase costs.In addition to this, the druids are determined to make sure that the Highways Agency chooses to dig a proper tunnel (which is expensive), rather than just sinking the road and putting a roof on top of it, which would disturb more of the archaeologically interesting plain.

Hairy nosed wombats often choose to dig their burrows, made up of a series of tunnels, below these acacia trees, also known as stinking wattle as they smell like sour cabbage.