Sentence examples for digging from inspiring English sources

The word "digging" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing the action of physically digging with a tool or your hands, or when you are looking for something. Example sentence: I spent all afternoon digging in the garden to try and find the lost necklace.

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digging

verb

Present participle of dig

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"There's definitely a sense of responsibility," says Claire Rafferty, England's left-back and a part-time financial analyst at Deutsche Bank, who can look back nine years and recall her parents digging deep to finance career-saving knee surgery.

The place that was built by miners, a community nestled in high black walls of mullock from more than 100 years of digging ore out of the ground.

He was also physically fit, and worked from morning till night, gardening and digging holes right up to his arrest, so we think he would have been able to bury bodies so that they wouldn't have been discovered".

But it is understood that the talks have effectively broken down with the Lib Dems digging their heels in over such emblematic issues for the Tory right as the European arrest warrant.

The charity's stunning gardens are a place of safety and serenity for veterans with post-traumatic stress who, through planting, digging, and weeding, can heal and make the transition to civilian life.

Digging below the headline number for overall economic expansion the picture in Germany is highly worrying: German exports fell by 5.8% from July to August while industrial production saw its biggest decline since 2009 over the same period, contracting by 4.8%.

She described having her voicemails intercepted as like being "monitored and hunted down by a sort of secret police, who were digging into our lives as much as they could in order to discover every possible detail about our private lives, as well as our professional ones, to use against us".

Hiles would happily renew the deal, "but if in three years' time they are digging up half the area and flames are firing from the taps, we'd obviously think again," he jokes.

One source inside the talks said the DUP was digging in.

For a while it looked as if the club was endlessly digging to new levels of rock bottom, as an embarrassing defeat to Chorley in the FA Cup highlighted just how far they had sunk.

Just inside, children labour hard to prepare storm ditches for the coming rains, digging out the stinking mud, watched by a sullen adult and a young girl with no expression on her face beyond that shaped by her skinny cheekbones.

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