How to Use dig out in a Sentence

dig out

verb

• The city then wants to dig out the site of the house, refill it and clean up the area.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Lynx spent the rest of the game trying to dig out of the crater, but came up just short.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• But lose three or more, and the Hoosiers will have a hole to dig out of the rest of the season.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2020
• In the dark, Shuey dug out the shop’s change safe with her hands from a foot and a half of mud.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2018
• That's quite a hole to dig out of, but the UAE is giving it a go.
  — Fortune, 18 May 2021
• The area is marked by huge waste dumps made up of rock and earth that have been dug out of the mines.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
• The Jets got on the board first when Nik Ehlers dug out the puck in the corner and worked it back up the half-wall.
  — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 10 May 2018
• The boys began to dig out what would be known as the Money Pit.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• The walkway down to the lighthouse was dug out and replaced.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Females use the hind feet to dig out a hole as deep as their feet can reach.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• Or sometimes to dig out news the team would prefer to hide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• Players talk all the time about the burden of having to dig out of holes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
• Her music helped me thaw and dig out from under the snow.
  — Chris Stedman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2018
• Lue dug out several plays designed to put the ball in the hands of Love.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
• All three males were buried, but one victim had managed to dig out of the slide.
  — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
• With that in mind, toward season’s end, Ryan dug out the pick-6 ball.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Seems like old times — maybe even time to dig out those parade plans.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2021
• The deficit was too much to dig out from, even though Louisville did cut the lead to four midway through the second half.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2018
• The snow has piled so high that crews have also been forced to dig out some of the chairlifts, up to 40 feet off the ground.
  — Amudalat Ajasa, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• That meant digging out the center strip of the new asphalt last week.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
• And workers — those that had to go to the office — dug out, and then dug in, for long commutes.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2019
• Their defense had already dug them a hole too large to dig out of.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• The city’s first tunnel, the Lake Union Sewer Tunnel, was dug out of fear.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2018
• At one point, shovels were also needed to dig out the wheels, the 11-minute video shows.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2018
• Kids can smash their way through the shell and the compound inside to dig out the pieces of a buildable dinosaur.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• Some folks like to dig out a channel in the banana and then add the fillings or cut the banana in halves.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2022
• Time to dig out that sequined glove and brush up on those old moonwalk moves.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2018
• But the fact is lapses have forced the Lynx to dig out of holes, rather than create them for Seattle.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
• The Cowboys don’t appear to have the tools necessary to dig out of their current hole.
  — Jesse Reed, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Milwaukee has both the talent and experience to dig out of this early rut.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024