DUG in a Sentence

Learn DUG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

99 example sentences for DUG, such as:

1. We dug a deep pit in the yard.
2. He dug a deep hole in the garden.
3. The cat dug his claws into my leg.
4. We dug a hole and planted the tree.
5. Workers dug a trench for gas lines.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dug
 n.  an udder or breast or teat
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  Scarlett dug her fingers into the upholstery of the carriage and for a moment her parasol wavered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  At New Hope Church, fifteen miles farther along the hotly fought way, the gray ranks dug in for a determined stand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  On the steep sides of the mountain they dug their rifle pits and on the towering heights they planted their batteries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  They dug in hastily in shallow pits to the north of the town in the valley of Peachtree Creek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  So many men had been buried that month, in shallow, hastily dug graves at Oakland Cemetery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  The townsfolk sheltered as best they could in cellars, in holes in the ground and in shallow tunnels dug in railroad cuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  She sat down in the furrows and dug into the earth with hands that shook, filling her basket slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Fretting, she dug her chin into her arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  I could bury him in the corner of the garden under the arbor--the ground is soft there where Pork dug up the whisky barrel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Hoping to find jewelry buried with the dead, the Yankee soldiers had broken open vaults, dug up graves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Scarlett's nails dug into her palms as she clenched her fists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  His eyes sparkled wickedly and he dug his elbow into Hugh's ribs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Pork had dug the grave the night before, close by Ellen's grave, and he stood, spade in hand, behind the moist red clay he was soon to shovel back in place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
15  Somewhere in some hastily dug trench in the enemy's country.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.
2  We dug a hole and planted the tree.
3  We dug a deep pit in the yard.
4  The treasure dug out of the earth was a box of gold coins.
5  Central to the operation is a mile-deep well, dug originally to explore for oil.
6  He has dug up the tiles that cover the floor and left them in a heap.
7  He dug a deep hole in the garden.
8  The workmen dug out a deep channel for the water.
9  More than a dozen people were dug out of the avalanche alive.
10  As soon as the food arrived he dug in hungrily.
11  Workers dug a trench for gas lines.
12  The workmen dug a hole, mended the pipe, and then filled the hole in again.
13  The repairs men have dug a hole in the road.
14  Roads have to be dug up to lay underground cables.
15  The cat dug his claws into my leg.