How to Use dig up in a Sentence

dig up

verb
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  • For a hard-sided pool, any sod will have to be dug up, and sand added on top of the dirt.
    — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • Armed with a warrant, a team of FBI agents came in March 2018 to dig up the hillside.
    — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Wait another month, then dig up the roots and wash them off in the kitchen sink.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • How to Overwinter Dahlias Dahlias can be a bit tricky to dig up and save over the winter.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
  • Decades ago, miners dug up sand and gravel from much of the land that’s now the two-platform stop.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The crew dug up thousands of tons of dirt for the project and dropped it on top of the ancient landslide zone, which hadn’t moved in 4,800 years.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • On one side, the ground had been dug up to support the hulking frame of new construction.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Times contributing critics dug up some gems with which to start the year.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Bulbs can be dug up at the end of the growing season and stored indoors until next spring.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • The crew dug up old drawings and got in touch with the office of the arch’s designer, Chuck Hoberman.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The crew had hit something while digging up a pit for drainage underneath the stump.
    — Sydney Bishop, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • McLellan said after a main break, crews will dig up the street, fix the pipes and restore pressure.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The driveway was dug up, and large chunks of it were hauled out of the neighborhood in construction trucks.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Here are a few favorite bulbs that squirrels and chipmunks rarely dig up and deer rarely eat.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Langley made a request to the Leicester City Council to dig up the lot.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In contrast, the ceramics are made from clay from within the sites that could have been dug up by the makers.
    — Jaimie Seaton, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Wait until fall or spring to disturb the tree, and make sure to dig up as much of its roots as possible.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2024
  • Their remains were dug up in 2019 and taken to a lab for analysis.
    — Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • But at the start, that confidence needed to be dug up from somewhere.
    — Sam Sklar, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Begin digging up part of the area with a shovel, placing the dirt in a wheelbarrow or on a large tarp.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2024
  • One parent said someone threatened to dig up his dead son’s grave.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 24 June 2024
  • Now is a good time to dig up and thin out spring blooming perennials such as iris, shasta daisies and daylilies.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And where else can my kids go to dig up embarrassing Bill & Ted outtakes of their dad?
    — Alex Winter, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And the fact is there were lots of problematic websites that would be dug up by that search engine.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
  • Giles spent much of the next two years digging up more information.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
  • For around $19, an employee will bring you out to the water’s edge with a shovel to dig up a bread tin that was buried there the prior day.
    — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
  • For around $19, an employee will bring you out to the water’s edge with a shovel to dig up a bread tin that was buried there the prior day.
    — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2022
  • When word reached him of the colossal teeth dug up at Stono, Catesby decided to make the trip south to see the fossils for himself.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Once the weeds are within its sights, the robot uses a series of metal fingers to quickly dig up and push weeds out of the dirt.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Police sent excavators to dig up the rug the following morning.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

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