Sentence examples for horizontal digging from inspiring English sources
Horizontal digging through the rubble-filed mine shaft was halted after a second collapse killed three rescuers and injured six on Aug. 16.
Prince William and Kate Middleton, soon to be neighbours over the gilded fence in Kensington Palace, will be breathing a sigh of relief: the project was of such a scale that it would have required a specialist in horizontal digging.
Archaeologists have tried to determine how many layers the site descends, according to French archaeologist André Parrot, "each time a vertical probe was commenced in order to trace the site's history down to virgin soil, such important discoveries were made that horizontal digging had to be resumed".
"Planters have to terrace such an area and dig horizontal holes to prevent erosion.
New York is like a horizontal archaeological dig.
Crews struggled for two and a half days to rescue her, digging a deep parallel shaft and then a 63-inch horizontal tunnel through bedrock to join the two shafts.
Water continued to flow from two other springs believed to be from the same source -- West Spring, a tiny trickle of water, and Tunnel Spring, a horizontal well that ranchers dug in 1904.
This bird digs a horizontal cavity into the sand on a river embankment.
Known as microtunneling or horizontal drilling, it can get from Point A to Point B underground, without digging a long, gaping ditch and disturbing life on the surface.
