Sentence examples for he ordered digging from inspiring English sources

Once, he ordered digging to stop because of "eyes on the north side" — someone had been snooping around one of his warehouses in Otay Mesa.

Once, he ordered digging to stop because of "eyes on the north side"—someone had been snooping around one of his warehouses in Otay Mesa.

By now the majority of the 9th and 10th Battalions, along with brigade commander Maclagen, had arrived on the plateau, and he ordered them to dig in on the plateau instead of advancing to Gun Ridge.

He ordered his men to dig in.

Charles Wilkes, a US naval officer and explorer, thought they were ancient Indian burial mounds when he first encountered them in 1841, but when he ordered his men to dig up three mounds they found no bones, only a "pavement of round stones".

Chapo allegedly kept his captive locked in a henhouse-type structure until the smell of his scorched flesh became unbearable, at which point he ordered his men to dig a hole in a nearby graveyard.

His quarters were given to his relatives, who promptly arranged a "grand" funeral; this incensed the coroner so much that he ordered the body to be dug up and set upon the city gates.

So he ordered all three assault divisions to dig in at their second line of objectives.

Her works overturn facts and trusted institutions through her academic explorations to unearth ruptures in our formal thinking and acceptance of order, digging deep into large social themes of justice, power, and politics.

A Spanish judge has ordered the digging up of a mass grave believed to hold the body of the poet Federico García Lorca.

He was being pushed by security police officers into the family's front garden, where he was handed a shovel and ordered to dig for weapons.