How to Use dig out in a Sentence

dig out

verb
  • The safest bet is to dig out or kill the wild ones.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • Can any team dig out of its early hole?
    — Austin Mock, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Now the state is trying to dig out of that hole.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Seems like old times — maybe even time to dig out those parade plans.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2021
  • Clarence Wright was digging out his truck.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Females use the hind feet to dig out a hole as deep as their feet can reach.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • Their defense had already dug them a hole too large to dig out of.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
  • Crews dug out manholes so that the street could begin to drain.
    — Gino Vicci, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As soon as my partner dug out her poncho, the rain seemed to let up.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The city then wants to dig out the site of the house, refill it and clean up the area.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The area is marked by huge waste dumps made up of rock and earth that have been dug out of the mines.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • All three males were buried, but one victim had managed to dig out of the slide.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • That meant digging out the center strip of the new asphalt last week.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Players talk all the time about the burden of having to dig out of holes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019
  • In the dark, Shuey dug out the shop’s change safe with her hands from a foot and a half of mud.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2018
  • The Lynx spent the rest of the game trying to dig out of the crater, but came up just short.
    — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The aloe vera and citric acid in this stuff dig out dirt, oil, and product buildup.
    — Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
  • Here's the right way to dig out after a snowstorm—and even build muscle in the process.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But lose three or more, and the Hoosiers will have a hole to dig out of the rest of the season.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The beds are a little more dug out than bass beds, similar to how a tilapia will build a bed.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
  • The boys began to dig out what would be known as the Money Pit.
    — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
  • Lue dug out several plays designed to put the ball in the hands of Love.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
  • With that in mind, toward season’s end, Ryan dug out the pick-6 ball.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And workers — those that had to go to the office — dug out, and then dug in, for long commutes.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That's quite a hole to dig out of, but the UAE is giving it a go.
    — Fortune, 18 May 2021
  • That trio dug out of the prison’s crumbling walls with spoons, left the island on a raft and were never seen again.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 6 May 2025
  • Some folks like to dig out a channel in the banana and then add the fillings or cut the banana in halves.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Kids can smash their way through the shell and the compound inside to dig out the pieces of a buildable dinosaur.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • At one point, shovels were also needed to dig out the wheels, the 11-minute video shows.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2018
  • Greater Cincinnati digs out from record-breaking snowfall.
    — Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2026

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