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
  • The diggers than turned to keeping themselves and two injured skiers alive amid the fierce blizzard.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Digger wasps, for example, are known to create burrows in the ground.
    — Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 14 Apr. 2026
  • With their sharp claws and powerful hind legs, skunks are voracious diggers.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Other footage captures diggers, and people with picks and shovels.
    — Bhadra Sharma, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 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
  • Though young, a baby skunk can still cause bodily harm to people trying to help, as skunks are known diggers and have sharp claws.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 28 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Skunks are avid diggers than can cause significant damage around your home’s foundation.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 24 Sep. 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
  • Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 29 Sep. 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
  • Following that successful mission, Juliette and her crew go to the door that Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) found in the digger void.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
  • After the safeguard pipe is clamped, Juliette and her crew — including the mechanics, sheriff and Camille — venture down to the door Lukas found in the digger void.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 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
  • But for this film incarnation of Graham’s story, Boyle wanted an Australian to portray the man labelled the ‘Dirty Digger’.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

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