Sentence examples for dug away from inspiring English sources

Similarly, The Slap dug away at the idea of a happily integrated community at peace with its immigrant population.

Excavation began late in the 19th century, and most of the accumulation has been dug away, down to the level at which Julius Caesar knew it.

If the peat soil was washed away by the sea or dug away by humans (for the production of fuel and salt), lakes were created.

Mounds of earth were built up, concrete poured over the top, and the earth dug away from beneath, creating a mysterious roughly-hewn aesthetic.

Overlying the seams, until it was blasted and dug away, were much larger quantities of grey-brown shale, what miners call "overburden".

One final image — picture the dozen of important sites clustered along the rivers of the Valle de Guayape, like San Marcos (documented by Strong); picture them removed by bulldozers to make way for modern ag, and dug away bit by bit, because they are great sources of adobe bricks.

Digging away until you find something.

Next thing I'm there on the roads digging away.

PETER CAREY, digging away at the past, is one of fiction's great treasure hunters.

Around 30 excavators were also digging away at the site last night as temperatures fell to just below freezing.

They used shovels to dig away the snow and free the animals, before giving them a rubdown.