Sentence examples for digs from inspiring English sources

Having moved into the digs of the former Melbourne Wine Room in Grey Street, St Kilda, Babu Ji has quickly established itself by offering fresh and unexpected Indian flavours as well as creating a lively buzz with non-stop Bollywood dance routines projected on the back wall.

But at others, rent increases have accompanied an increase in the number of large hotel-style rooms – a far cry from the more basic digs traditionally associated with universities.

It is a joyfully cheap place to live: rent is cheap, beer is cheap, transport is cheap, which makes the transition from home to student digs that little bit easier – your student loan goes that bit further.

There is a new breed of students in town and they're looking for accommodation just a little smarter than your average digs.

As low-rent as the title sounds, it digs out some good storytellers – Gary Brooker from Procul Harum recalls how his group once refused to back matronly 50s pianist Mrs Mills – and also serves as a microscope on the evolving industry.

Events take a sinister turn when the friends spot a dead goat in the pool: "Decomposition; the new fragrance by John Paul Goatier Glenisterr's character jokes as Beesley's Woody manfully digs a hole to bury it.

Here are some tips on how to find a good houseshare and how to avoid some common problems with student digs.

"Is it a breathing pipe?" Paul absent-mindedly digs his nails into a lesion just below the hem of his shorts.

When I was young and in different towns with the theatre I used to walk out of the digs and leave whatever was there.

When I dreamed of being an actor I always thought of sitting in digs in somewhere like Darlington or Norwich waiting to do Hamlet, and that's what I was doing.

But his digs could be gratuitous and his exasperation overly theatrical.... Ryan parried this well.