Diggers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
Diggers appear to have remained active, for example, near a historic Buddhist monastery.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 3, 2023
Diggers, bulldozers and other heavy equipment arrived and ripped up ground to lay sewage and water systems that were then topped with fresh tarmac roads and lined with neat pavements.
From Reuters • May 15, 2023
The Stars and Stripes flew at its recent Gold Diggers Day celebration, held in a decimated downtown ringed by the skeletons of fire-blackened trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2022
She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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