Words similar to digging

Example sentences for: digging

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That would be OK--I enjoy playing footsie--but she likes to tease me by digging her heel into my bare toes (I usually wear sandals), often when I'm ordering.
But the novel idea of guarding it with thousands of pottery soldiers was revealed by accident in 1974, when local peasants digging a well created a world-wide sensation.
Archaeologists digging under the ruins of the residential palace of Roman tyrant Nero earlier this month stumbled on an astonishing find: a 10-foot-by-6-foot fresco, faded but almost completely intact.
A majority of economists believes that during a severe depression--which certainly doesn't describe America right now--it's important to pay people to do make-work (digging ditches or restoring hiking trails will also do).
In a profession obsessed with scoops, it's nice to see some digging instead.