Examples of 'had to dig' in a sentence
Meaning of "had to dig"
had to dig - This phrase typically means that someone had to put in effort or work hard to find information or uncover something. It implies that the desired information was not readily available or easily accessible, requiring extra effort, research, or investigation to discover or obtain.
How to use "had to dig" in a sentence
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had to dig
I had to dig around in the basement to find it.
And then we realized we had to dig outwards.
I had to dig the arrow out of my spine.
These are requests here we had to dig for.
You really had to dig for records.
Had to dig out the sweatpants as well.
These are requests we really had to dig for.
He never had to dig down to rally back.
Thirty centuries later we had to dig them out.
They had to dig wells for water.
Any time you really had to dig deep.
I had to dig all this stuff up on my own.
The last prisoners had to dig on their own.
I had to dig through a bunch of camp journals.
The boys had to dig a hole.
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I had to dig a tunnel in the underground storage.
I thought you meant you actually had to dig.
I had to dig through the county records.
Look how far down they had to dig.
You just had to dig his courage.
I credit the players because they had to dig deep.
We had to dig foundations down to solid permafrost.
You did not say we had to dig it up with our teeth.
I had to dig deep to find the courage.
Emma and the others had to dig the graves.
They had to dig a trench for her.
I could tell you really had to dig deep for it.
I had to dig deep to get the root.
My fault he had to dig coal.
She had to dig out of her own grave.
It was my fault he had to dig coal.
They had to dig the main canal.
Someone still had to dig it.
He just had to dig until he found them.
Maybe you should have addressed it publicly before someone had to dig it up.
They had to dig him out.
Three opium merchants and a German shepherd had to dig me out.
We had to dig through our archives.
We really had to dig deep.
I had to dig a hole to bury some human defecation.
All of us had to dig deep.
I had to dig in the archives downstairs for this.
We just had to dig deep.
I had to dig up their bodies just to pay my respects.
That meant someone else had to dig it up for you.
They had to dig them out of the cellar.
The specimen was so big they had to dig it out with a backhoe.
He had to dig his own grave.
My legs were getting tired and I had to dig in.
And we had to dig down deep.
