In 2007 a series of sections were dug across the earthwork which showed that it had existed where there are no longer visible surface remains.

Backhoes dug trenches across the road, and he said trespassers would be arrested by the local police.

A pit had been dug across the road and concealed.

It is a large site - 28,000 square feet - with a hole already dug to its 26-foot depth across the entire plot.

We dug a new water pipe, two summers back, across the middle of the camp.

He dug trenches, at intervals across hundreds of miles in the desert.

She twisted in my grip and dug her nails across my hand.

They're going to dig a trench of air across the water, the whole depth of the river.

It was a short, hand dug channel cut across one of the many oxbows that once characterized the river in the 18th and 19th century.

A trench was dug across the rampart to provide a cross-section.