At the risk of its life, it stubbornly digsand gnaws to the very bark, of which it leaves no more intact than the thinnest film, a slender screen.
Checked in the downward direction, the Scarites now digs against the glass wall and continues his work horizontally until he has obtained a length of nearly twelve inches in all.
In the vegetable mould which does duty as a floor to the wire-gauze dome, the mother digs a pit four-fifths of an inch deep and as wide as her body.
The insect bends his head a long way down and, with the points of his mandibles, brought together to form a pick-axe, he hews, digs and excavates with a will.
The phonograph recorder digs vertically downwards into the surface of the record, whereas the stylus of the gramophone wags from side to side and describes a snaky course (Fig.
On this spot he digs down, but is not allowed to run drifts horizontally, so as to break into or undermine the pits of others.
He goes to the forest and with the axe cuts down poles and carries them home, and with his hoe digs a trench into which he places them.
The man goes to the hills anddigs until he finds the iron ore.
He is extremely fond of eggs, and goes to the shores frequented by turtles, and digs them out of the sand.
The father never lifts his eyes; the hole widens round the stump; he digs away till the brave little wife comes and takes him gently by the arm.
The troopers reach the door of the homestead; but still hedigs steadily, and does not seem to hear his wife's cry of despair.
The insect could not make more directly for the objective if guided by the sense of sight; it digs always at the foot of the straw, my private sign.
As it digs and advances the larva waters the powdery debris and converts it into a paste, which is immediately applied to the walls by the pressure of the abdomen.
The father, a vigilant watchman, still retains his hold, while the mother digs with claws and head.
He goes on all four around the tent, carrying Najib on his back; he digs a little ditch in the sand and teaches him how to lie therein.
In these diggings the shrewd antiquary digsfor those precious tear-bottles of my ancestors.
With that he digs into a hip pocket and unlimbers a roll of corn-tinted kale the size of your wrist.
Then I slides back anddigs up a card case that Aunt Zenobia has presented me with only a couple of days ago.
The material which settles in the strake, a boy either digsover with a three-toothed iron rake or sweeps with a wooden scrubber; in this way the water carries off a great part of both sand and mud.
L--Pick like the beak of a duck with which the miner digs out the material from which the small stones are obtained.
Further, it is the business of the manager to see that the foreman of the mine is present at the beginning and end of the shifts, that he digs the ore in an advantageous manner, and makes the required timbering, machines, and drains.
Usually two workmen are required to drive it, one of whom digs out the upper and the other the lower part, and the one goes forward, while the other follows closely after.
Now notice how deep Paul digsin order to get a foundation for a common virtue.
Lawes says, that “the soil is a mine,” out of which he digs money.
The owner of the coal digs it and gets it to market in the best way he can.
To have an ideal or to have none, to have this ideal or that--this is what digs gulfs between men, even between those who live in the same family circle, under the same roof or in the same room.
A single night digs a gulf between the self of yesterday and the self of to-day.
The boy who digs potatoes from his own garden thinks them larger and smoother than the ones he digs for wages.
And you lay off from handing out your little digs at him across the table meal-times.
The farmer who keeps his eyes open before he gives an opinion knows that the Rook digs his beak into the ground because he hopes to find worms there.
But one day I seed Massa Rodgers take a dozen guns out his wagon and he and some white men digs a ditch round de cotton field close to de road.
Iffen you digs out splinters from de north side a old pine tree what been struck by lightnin', and gits dem hot in a iron skillet and burns dem to ashes, den you puts dem in a brown paper sack.
Dat night dey digs up de buried gold and we left out.
Only around him some platforms of sandy earth appear; he digs them with his knife, to form steps.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, Or plows, that others may be fed, Feels less fatigue than that decreed To him who cannot think, or read.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
