dug (through)

past tense of dig (through)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dug (through)
Verb
  • The bodies of two of the victims were found as authorities searched the debris, Renye said.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Navy searched the area extensively, but after two weeks, Earhart and Noonan were declared lost at sea.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • William Prud’homme, 34, posted his discovery on the r/TheWayWeWere subreddit, a channel dedicated to old photos, scanned documents, articles and anecdotes from the past.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames grew out of control.
    Paul Rogers, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Denver has already landed its first founding partner, CommonSpirit Health, which also secured naming rights for the club’s performance center.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This year the honor roll student founded The Curious Kid Collective, a community initiative that promotes literacy and creative exploration for children through storytelling and art, and was a recipient of the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Dug (through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dug%20%28through%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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