How to Use dig out in a Sentence

dig out

verb
  • Her neighbors are still digging out from the muck left by this past weekend’s record flooding.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2019
  • One man digging out packets of biscuits had half submerged himself in the mess.
    Stephen Wright, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • There’s the flower bed out front that White Fang dug out as some sort of potential birthing room.
    Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2019
  • The White House tree was dug out after the ceremony in the lawn and moved into quarantine.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartzy, 11 June 2019
  • Del Gaizo scored when Oliver Chau dug out a loose puck behind Denver’s net and fed a pass into the left circle.
    John Wawrow, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • But instead of a tiny hole for a screw or a nail, this digs out a perfectly round, perfectly flat-bottomed, perfectly plant-sized hole in the soil, with just the push of a button!
    Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
  • At-home instruments are not sterile, so digging out your ingrown toenail at home can introduce harmful bacteria into the skin.
    Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The studio’s foundation was stabilized and a basement was dug out, providing a space to store the Trust’s archive and collections.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Additionally, Berk and Do are digging out the hill that the front of the house sits on to make space for a new two-car garage, a gym and a pool with glass walls, which the steps of the entryway will go under.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2019
  • 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

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