NOUN
- the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
How To Use digging up In A Sentence
- Well, suddenly without any warning, a couple of weeks ago, men and machines arrived and started digging up the road and pavement and generally causing the usual traffic chaos.
- The recent BBC series on metal detectorists, ‘Hidden Treasure: Digging up Britain's Past’ has provoked extreme reactions in the archaeological world.
- Some flower thieves were fined just last month for digging up 300 quid's worth from a Norfolk garden.
- Jack, to his own shame, follows Willie into the muck by digging up "doit" (as they call it in Louisiana) on his own loving mentor, Judge Irwin (Philip Davidson), for political gain. The Seattle Times
- There were threads unpicked, all sorts of embarrassments and delays... and now they were digging up the road outside! THE LAST RAVEN
- Yesterday churchgoers were still burying the dead and digging up body parts. Times, Sunday Times
- The men were caught in the act of digging up buried explosives.
- At other locations protesters were seen digging up cobbles to throw at police and several tried to pull down fences to make improvised weapons.
- To those who have rowed only clumsy country-boats, with their awkward row-locks and wretched oars, slimy, dirty, and leaking, trailing behind tags and streamers of pond-weed, or who have only experimented with that most uncivilized style of digging up the water called paddling, the real pleasure of rowing is unknown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
- His book follows several families of pot hunters who ran afoul of the government after digging up relics on public land.
