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  1. excavation, digging, dignoun

    the act of digging

    "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

    Synonyms:
    barb, dig, excavation, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, jibe, gibe, mining

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. diggingnoun

    Synonyms:
    excavation, exhumation (digging up)

    Associated words:
    fossorial, fodient

How to use digging in a sentence?

  1. Nicholas Wade:

    Mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own, that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. Our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out.

  2. Suzann Pettersen:

    I kept digging deep and finished strong, and I feel like I played really good golf this week, it’s nice to be back. There’s probably been some tears of pain, feeling like you’re bouncing your head against the wall with injuries.

  3. Reginald Haupt , Jr.:

    They would probably locate him where no one would ever suspect, and you don't go around digging up a golf course.

  4. Marty Mobley:

    It stood right up and towered over us, because we were in kind of a hole from the digging, it looked like the abominable snowman because its fur was so packed with snow and it looked at us, shook the snow off it, and off it went.

  5. Jan Groen:

    I don't think he understands the working class in general, he hasn't made any efforts to talk to us, he just keeps digging deeper into powers… I don't think he understands people.

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