Example sentences for: digs

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

  • In her wonderfully gossipy new book about Cecilia Bartoli, Cinderella & Company , Manuela Hoelterhoff digs out some hard-to-come-by figures.

  • Its laughs are as crude as the chuckles of "little boys sniggering over National Geographic " (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Others say its digs at ivory-tower credulousness and Dreyfuss' turn as a neurotic professor make it "too funny to ignore" (David Denby, New York ). (The trailer is available here.)

  • In addition, Duberstein has a beautiful blonde assistant who dutifully tracks poll ratings, digs up dirt on Thomas' opponents, shakes her head at Hill's incomprehensible charges, and beams in delight when Thomas is confirmed.

  • Washington's new mayor, Anthony A. Williams, wants to move the beleaguered University of the District of Columbia from its affluent Northwest Washington digs to Anacostia, the District's poorest and most isolated area.

  • On the LAT op-ed page, columnist Richard Reeves digs up a Ben Franklin-style memo Nixon wrote to himself, that he violated with just about every waking breath: "Need to be good to do good.


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