Sentence examples for dug from inspiring English sources

San Angelo, a city of 100,000, dug a pipeline to an underground water source more than 60 miles away, and sunk half a dozen new wells.

Flurry dug deeper and found another key difference: compared to the average smartphone owner, those on Xiaomi were much more likely to be aged between 18 and 34, and much less likely to be aged over 35.

If you don't hear from me this week, then it's because I've dug a hole for myself in the park, crawled into it and encased myself in concrete.

I walked and I walked, I dug through the archives, listened to a thousand stories about Canberra – that stage for national debate, machination, intrigue and domestic life – and I thought "maybe if I just... ....... "There is no room for the novelist to exercise imagination".

"Is that new?" friends would ask, narrowing their eyes, if I wore an old shirt dug out from the darkest recesses of my wardrobe.

To the dismay of inexperienced politicians in his left-dominated coalition, creditors have dug in their heels with cash reserves drying up inexorably as negotiations over a deal to unlock further bailout funds have gone to the wire.

If it was the 23rd over and Hashan Tillkaratne had dug in for the long haul, we headed for the bar.

(His mother left when Carlyle was a toddler - he had no contact with her until the Sunday Mirror tracked her down in 1995: "I didn't even know what she looked like, and then these bastards dug her up. Imagine what that does to you," he said at the time).

However, the Demons dug deep with Heritier Lumumba kicking an inspirational goal in his 200th AFL game that sparked a decisive four-goal burst.

That honour, instead, went to John Wycliffe, a 14th-century theologian, scholar and clerical troublemaker who translated the Bible into English in the 1380s, and argued for much of his life against the power and wealth of the pope – a somewhat edgy pastime that led to his bones being dug up and burned after his death, before being chucked into a river in Leicestershire.

Today's Times (paywall) has dug up some evidence that Boris Johnson, London mayor and arch-leaderist – witness his quickie biography of wartime leader Boris Churchill – is the answer to David Cameron's problems.