Example sentences for: dug

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

  • Over the whole region, these tunnels, all dug by hand, stretch for perhaps 3,000 km (more than 1,800 miles), with some singular water tunnels running as far as 40 km (25 miles).

  • have dug the earth with the self-same hands they are now putting into the dish."

  • ‘The first of these was in October 2002, a massive brainstorming session at which we all dug around in the genome for our favourite genes and tried to get a feel for what was there’, explains Bowler.

  • Finally, back in Amman from Boston, Hijazi gradually accumulated bomb-making materials, including sulfuric acid and 5,200 pounds of nitric acid, which were then stored in an enormous subbasement dug by the plotters over a period of two months underneath a rented house.

  • Masons dug a shaft 10 m (33 ft) into the bedrock for Ramses III’s tomb (11) c.1151.


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