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
• 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 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 channel has both east and west lines that began being dug out in 2003.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2019
• The aloe vera and citric acid in this stuff dig out dirt, oil, and product buildup.
  — Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
• Here are nine reasons why the Celtics could still dig out of a gloomy predicament and find a way to win the NBA title.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• The beds are a little more dug out than bass beds, similar to how a tilapia will build a bed.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
• This month, workers started digging out the next big load — around 9,000 tons — for the second phase of the project.
  — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2020
• But Halep dug out the first set, and, as the second progressed, the points started to slip away from Gauff quickly.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
• Once your bales are ready, dig out holes about six inches deep in the bales with a trowel or small tree saw.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 17 Feb. 2021
• Children pry at the dirt with sticks, trying to dig out parts of homes that have sunk below ground.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• Young men passed by pushing trolleys stacked with bricks that they had dug out of the sidewalk.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Luis Severino turned in arguably his worst outing of the season, putting the Amazins’ in a hole too deep to dig out of.
  — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• Players often love to dig out details from the time period to make their characters feel more real.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024