How To Use Digging up In A Sentence
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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.
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The recent BBC series on metal detectorists, ‘Hidden Treasure: Digging up Britain's Past’ has provoked extreme reactions in the archaeological world.
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Some flower thieves were fined just last month for digging up 300 quid's worth from a Norfolk garden.
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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
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There were threads unpicked, all sorts of embarrassments and delays... and now they were digging up the road outside!
THE LAST RAVEN
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Yesterday churchgoers were still burying the dead and digging up body parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The men were caught in the act of digging up buried explosives.
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At other locations protesters were seen digging up cobbles to throw at police and several tried to pull down fences to make improvised weapons.
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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
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His book follows several families of pot hunters who ran afoul of the government after digging up relics on public land.
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But the pigs are really great: they're extremely friendly creatures and love digging up the rough land.
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I'm a horror writer myself, so will make some mention of his connection to the popular culture, but am primarily interested in digging up the Poe that rests partially occulted under a big pile of fourth grade school assignments and such.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Ah yes, digging up the bowling green would probably mean some explaining, as well.
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So far, he enjoys digging up the fleecy blanket.
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The story goes that Portuguese slave traders, watching Africans digging up some roots, asked what they were called.
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But others complain that foxes are digging up their gardens, fouling their lawns, attacking their pets and ripping open their garbage bags.
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Clive Williams Henley on Thames, Oxon, UK discovered a carrot that looks like Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story while digging up his vegetable patch.
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She did something useful in digging up some Klingon language books in Star Trek VI.
Matthew Yglesias » Only on the Internet
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I could not resist digging up the thin topsoil and a little bit of the hard packed clay and shale.
BECOMING COTTONTAIL • by Deven D Atkinson
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The newspapers had been digging up dirt on the President.
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Winter is the best time to tackle those big projects in the garden such as digging up a new garden bed, putting in a garden arch or putting in a fish pond.
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After the rain stopped, the men went ahead with their work of digging up the street.
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Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries ....
Carol Hartsell: It's Only a Matter of Time (We're Already Out of Time)
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Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
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Gardeners digging up their borders for spring bulb planting are being urged to do their bit to help rescue the much-loved British bluebell.
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The dogs from next door often burrow under the fence and into my garden digging up plants.
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They were digging up worms to use for bait.
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They are digging up the football field to lay a new surface.
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They have given up work and are digging up their gardens.
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Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information.
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Yesterday churchgoers were still burying the dead and digging up body parts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rabbits who have taken up residence on the remains of a 14th century manor house in England are digging up fragments of a medieval glass window.
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I really wanted to plant more varieties of daylilies this year, butit means digging up a new flowerbed and time and lack of energy kept me from it.
Daylilies Begin 2009 « Fairegarden
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Hard Labor A few days later, near sunset, I was on the hill behind the house, digging up the tubers of a small patch of corydalis I had found.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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The site preparation work has commenced which entails digging up and levelling some 40 million cubic metres of earth.
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The first room in the Creation Museum will show paleontologists digging up a dinosaur raptor.
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They were digging up worms to use for bait.
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Students should be prepared for the often hard and dirty work of manhandling nature - removing invasive plants, digging up drainage tile, placing riprap along streambeds.
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After the rain stopped, the men went ahead with their work of digging up the street.
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But others complain that foxes are digging up their gardens, fouling their lawns, attacking their pets and ripping open their garbage bags.
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Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
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They're digging up the road outside to repair the electricity cables.
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Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
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The movie ends with a harrowing scene of the father digging up his son's coffin, only to discover a piece of wood inside the box.
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The most recent piece of legislation in this area was the Telegraph Act of 1863 which had loose restrictions on digging up roads.
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Labourers can earn up to $5 a day digging up and selling fossils, and this has created a massive supply of black-market dino relics.
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It's also worthwhile surrounding your pots and trays with netting (or prickly holly clippings) to prevent these rodents digging up the seeds.
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As Mortimer Wheeler put it 50 years ago, ‘the archaeological excavator is not digging up things, he is digging up people’.
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Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.
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Whenever we fished this popular jetty, I got the job of digging up the lugworm on the beach, and then gutting the mackerel when we got home.
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Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb.
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Between tearing down walls and digging up floors I was always wrecked.
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It's also worthwhile surrounding your pots and trays with netting (or prickly holly clippings) to prevent these rodents digging up the seeds.
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At the time workmen were digging up a nearby road.
The Sun
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Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do.
House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The company will either unblock the pipe or, in a worst-case scenario, replace it all together - this can sometimes involve digging up the street.
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Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me.
The Celebrity, Volume 02
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Millett purchased a large piece of land in Anson to accommodate his relatives, drew a large family tree on the ground with orange spray paint, and started digging up, transporting, and reinterring the remains of his forebears, each in the appropriate spot.
Archive 2005-10-01
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Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
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Whatever we think about the truth or otherwise of this piece of ancient Irish history the story received a boost some years later, when men were digging up the soil along this area.
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In the morning the water was back on, and I felt very grateful to some poor soul who had probably had to spend a freezing night in a fenland ditch somewhere, digging up pipes.
Darwin Sucks « Tales from the Reading Room
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Digging up an old Mafia stereotype always struck the fear into them, thought the Don.
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The sun has been shining, my neighbour has been in his garden farting and Poppy, my most excellent beagle has been digging up the vegetable patch.
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Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information.
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In the event, Gabriel got work with a road crew, digging up the streets of north London for cable companies; Andrea, again unable to persuade a bank to give her an interview, took up house- cleaning.
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On Sunday night last, locals in the village were disgusted to find that boyracers had once again left their mark on the village green areas doing their wheelie, u-turns and digging up the soft ground.
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The whole lot wants digging up and replacing with a small roundabout like it should have been since day one.
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How often do we, the hard-pressed citizens, ponder this topic as we bump along potholed roads or survey the latest round of digging up along our main streets?
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Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
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But under the new regulations, firms which take too long to complete the job, or start digging up the road not long after another company has left, will face stiff sanctions.
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In the end, the key components such as cyclone separator , circulating ash returning equipment, air distributor, firing device, observing window, gate for digging up the dreg are designed.
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If he was a journalist intent on digging up some ancient dirt, he'd come up empty-handed.
