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Example sentences for: dug

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They dug the 23,000-year-old animal out of permafrost soil and transported it--still frozen--to a Russian laboratory.
Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).
The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
In Chile, more than 900 victims of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime have been dug up and identified.
The topsoil is neatly set aside, the clay beneath is dug out for brick-making, and the fertile black earth is then replaced.