Examples of 'had dug' in a sentence

Meaning of "had dug"

Had dug refers to the past action of excavating, creating a hole or trench, or removing earth or soil from a particular location. It indicates that digging had already taken place at some point in the past, suggesting the existence of a hole, trench, or excavation that was completed or in progress

How to use "had dug" in a sentence

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He who had dug his own grave.
We were all in a bunker we had dug in the ground.
They had dug to escape the gunfire.
To see what the forensics team had dug up.
By evening she had dug a further foot.
Art had dug around online to find a bargain.
That story of mine betty schaefer had dug up.
Ellie had dug up one of those little caterers.
He looked at the small hole she had dug.
Komoko had dug a well and found water.
There was no water in the sector where the enemy had dug in.
I had dug myself into a very deep hole.
Someone had dug a hole.
He had dug his granary deep and covered it properly.
Coyotes had dug him up.

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We had dug a hole here for a new well a while ago.
Perhaps the workmen involved had dug up whatever was there to be found.
He had dug it up and insisted that the owl was buried underneath it.
It was not known if they had dug in during the hours of darkness.
The excavation team laid gravel in the pathways they had dug.
Once we had dug the roots.
There was dirt already there from when he had dug the fountain.
Others had dug mass graves for them.
When he was found two days later he had dug himself six meters.
And we already had dug seventeen meters of underground passage.
He was then decapitated and buried in the grave that he had dug for himself.
The team had dug trenches that are now covered.
He was so robust that his passage had dug a furrow into the ground.
It had dug deep.
He used a machine to enlarge the hole the gray cat had dug into.
He had dug it all up.
He immediately went into the underground tunnel he had dug and returned to the dungeon.
They even had dug out the bones of their ancestors.
But the mule drivers were shot and buried in the holes they had dug.
I had dug it up.
Raguel had his servants fill up the grave that he had dug before morning.
They also had dug wells to draw water for drinking and washing.
They will descend into the tunnels that we had dug deep under the pole.
She also had dug into the vein located inside the elbow.
Soon thereafter the concentration camp inmates who had dug the graves were themselves liquidated.
They had dug a pit to get mud to make the walls of their house.
One chronicle suggested that they had dug pits that an attacking army would fall into.
A Serb said that they had ended in those holes they had dug up.
He later claimed that he had dug up nine separate graves in three different cemeteries.
In the meantime several hundred Soviet prisoners had dug six huge pits.
During their agonies some had dug their fingernails into the flesh of their neighbors.
Abraham then offered Abimelech seven ewes as proof that Abraham had dug the well.
The Russians had dug trenches e had waited.
I felt I should put back what we had dug up.
I would have thought you had dug it up in Tenochtitlan.

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