Sentence examples for dig from inspiring English sources
The word "dig" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to either the physical action of digging a hole or using your hands to move earth, or to mean "investigate." For example, "The police asked me to dig into the case and try to find out as much as I could about the suspect."
verb
To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
But even in the best case scenario, one of these policies would be driven to a remote forest location by some psychopathic coalition senior partner, then made to dig its own grave with a Lib Dem campaign pen.
That defeat to Kumkhum last year hurt badly, Kvitova said, but it may also have helped her dig deeper to find the form that won her another Wimbledon.
That idea of understanding users extends to Evernote's desire to be able to dig into your previous documents and those of your co-workers and ferret out knowledge that will be useful for whatever you're working on, before you realise that you might need it.
Dig it out and ask, "what is this data telling us?" Use it to build your business case.
If we are looking for social context to the recent riots, we have to dig deeper.
Dig below the surface and Osborne and Bernstein are not so far apart.
Having frantically tried to dig his way out of a barn where hundreds were being burned to death, a man's body lies wedged under a wall where he was shot by German troops.
As he tries to dig the ball out from under his feet, Naughton does just enough to recover and clear.
Thoughtfully, they suggested I dig the hole next to the tree that the Queen planted back in 1990.
It was a little kick up the backside and everybody had to roll their sleeves up and dig in deep.
A crack team of old-school yellow journalists should be deployed to dig up everything knowable about the owners, editors and political correspondents of the newspapers, along with the Tory frontbench, to be kept for retaliation and/or pre-emption.
