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Example sentences for: dig

How can you use “dig” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Ambassador to Switzerland Larry Lawrence, who evidently had lied about his military record, asked President Clinton to dig up Lawrence and move him elsewhere in order to lay the controversy to rest.
One of the bigger challenges faced by contemporary journalism is convincingly dressing up its desire to dig dirt in the clothes of some principle or other.
When Howard Carter peered through the dusty air of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and, in his own words, “wonderful things” met his eyes, he confirmed the immeasurable wealth of the Pharaohs, and when the backer of the dig, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly only a few months later, vox populi blamed it on the curse of the Pharaohs mummy — and Hollywood was quick to feed our fantasies.
The Majic Bus is full of passages like this: "How could I be a great bop wanderer, a mystic in search of ecstasy, a hobo scribbler of haiku and jazz poems, somehow discovering, in Kerouacian terms, how to 'dig' life in the divine world to the fullest?"
Of course, to get at this essence you have to dig a little.