Sentence examples for dig a trough from inspiring English sources
In deep water, cable-laying ships drag a sled along the bottom to dig a trough in which to lay the cable.
When her grandmother died, she moved the old family boxwoods to frame the back gate, and then dug a trough from the gate straight through the center of the live oaks to meet the perpendicular of the long rectangular pools.
Bloomer Cut, 38 miles/61 kilometers from Sacramento, ended up being 800 feet/243 meters long and 63 feet/19.2 meters high, and workers dug a trough through naturally cemented gravel and hard clay with picks, shovels and black powder.1 This was the first major engineering challenge for the railroad, and it was dangerous work.
In one corner, Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey taking up the role played by Mr. Hackman) bids cold adieu to the crone who will make him fantastically rich; in another, Superman again digs a fiery trough into the Kent family farm upon crash landing.
Dig a hole inside the lagoon.
