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Example sentences for: digging

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In spite of vigorous protests from environmentalists, plans were approved for a road tunnel under the mountains, and digging began in 1990.
Just as rescuers were digging out victims of Tuesday's avalanche in Austria, another hit Wednesday, decimating four buildings.
Six thousand years ago a village, evidently thriving, occupied this farmland, but traces of habitation came to light only in the 1950s, when workmen were digging the foundations for a new factory.
The WP 's story emphasizes growing governmental concern, quoting Tony Blair's assessment that the West's economies "will not emerge from this turmoil without being affected by it," and a senior U.S. official's revelation that communications between Washington and Tokyo "are getting testier, and there is pessimism here about whether Japan has any conception about how to stop digging the hole it's in."
Heidi Fleiss he just ambushed, after digging up all sorts of unbelievable charges about her then failing to refute them.