How to Use digger in a Sentence

digger

noun
  • The diggers pulled up a pile of forks.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • These expert diggers do most of their hunting at night.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • What Is the ‘Digger’ Movie About?
    Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There are a few other wasps that nest in the ground, commonly referred to as digger wasps.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • Digger wasps, for example, are known to create burrows in the ground.
    Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Grab your bulb digger and set out these fabulous flowering bulbs for show-stopping spring blooms.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • In the past, the word conjured visions of a wealthy man trying to sniff out a gold-digger by sealing off his assets.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Weigh them down further by placing rocks or mounds of soil along the edges to deter would-be diggers from lifting or getting around them.
    Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • Many solitary wasps dig nesting chambers in sandy soils, like the cicada killer and the great golden digger wasps.
    Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • Bulldozers and a John Deere digger sit behind the house and near the concrete pad.
    Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • Digger then sets out to try to save the world, despite how unlikely the possibility may seem.
    ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • Satellite imagery from April 22 shows bulldozers and diggers at work in the area.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Collectors, DJs, and crate-diggers who've seen what works, what breaks, and what's worth every dollar.
    Jacorey Moon, Architectural Digest, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Use a fishtail weeder or dandelion digger after rain or watering when the soil is soft and forgiving.
    Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Identify and exclude—they’re tractor-mouthed diggers.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • The trailer starts with Cruise's Digger enjoying a lavish lifestyle inside of his mansion.
    ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • He was ultimately stopped after his father got into a digger and damaged the bulldozer’s cab enough to force it to stop, according to the BBC.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • What Did Tom Cruise Reveal About ‘Digger’ at CinemaCon?
    Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Levitation has unveiled the first wave of its 2026 lineup, again turning the city into a four-day fever dream of fuzz pedals, black clothing and committed crate-digger energy.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 28 May 2026
  • Even European diggers in Austrialia’s goldfields included it in their celebrations by mid-century.
    Troy Bickham, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Beyond the record bins, the event includes a full lineup of local and nationally known vinyl DJs, headlined by legendary producer and crate-digger Diamond D.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The hydrogen digger’s deployment follows earlier trials at Gallagher’s Hermitage Quarry in Kent.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In the photos — which have been formatted to look like a TIME cover shoot, in partnership with the magazine itself — Digger dons a beige cowboy hat, a gray suit, a bolo tie, and snakeskin boots.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
  • Otherwise, expect to see something from their year-end movie Diggers, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise in his first potential awards film in years.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Is Tom Cruise Finally Going To Win A Competitive Oscar With ‘Digger’?
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 July 2026
  • Concept art for Madame Leota’s Swinging Wake shows the street party will include familiar Haunted Mansion characters like the cemetery caretaker, grave diggers, ballroom dancers and a few ghoulish ghosts.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
  • Though the role required sacrificing vanity, when Catherine's father (Ralph Richardson) destroys her chances to marry a gold-digger (Montgomery Clift), the double betrayal transforms the shy woman into an iron maiden.
    Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The fossil trade in Morocco is the main source of income for more than 50,000 people, including diggers, miners, artisans, middlemen and wholesalers who go on to export the fossils, according to a 2018 study.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025

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