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How to use digger in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun

Digger means a large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches. Example: “The mechanical digger had tanklike treads.”

Examples of digger by meaning

nounA large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.

  • The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.1952 January, “Electrification Progress in Norway”, in Railway Magazine, page 55

nounA tool for digging.

  • The post hole digger did look ancient.2009, Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever, page 143

nounOne who digs.

  • Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.2005, Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems, page 130

nounAn Australian soldier.

  • Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre, page 191
  • For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.2002, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War, page xxiii
  • Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers.2004, Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape, page 99

More sentences with digger

  • The mechanical digger had tanklike treads.From the entry tanklike
  • This food digger just pulled a fast one on me! I thought it was supposed to be a date, but he just wanted me to pay for his meal.From the entry food digger
  • Digger lunged past me, his shotgun arm extended down the ladderway.2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Detachment Bravo, page 363. From the entry ladderway
  • They'll hire a new crew of diggers and make them swear to hold their tongues.2012, Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper. From the entry gloomsome
  • The company's product range includes tools, construction plant, diggers, dumpers and rollers.2007 January 26, “HSS buys Laois tool hire business”, in RTÉ News, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2025. From the entry plant
  • Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by 'the traps' (the goldfield police).2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55. From the entry trap
  • Our audience tends to be what I would call ‘crate diggers’—people who like digging for new stuff.2001 November 3, Brian Garrity, quoting Derrick Oien, “MP3.com Recasts Itself as Tech Outfit, Promo Vehicle”, in Timothy White, editor…. From the entry cratedigger
  • Is she the straight goods, or is she a gold digger trying to con him?1994 May 10, Guy Gugliotta, “Capital Notebook”, in Washington Post, retrieved 01 May 2016. From the entry straight goods
  • The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.1947, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California, Stanford University Press, page 182. From the entry gnawer
  • These men to whom I am referring are “dinky-die” diggers and patriots.1939, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 162, page 1254. From the entry dinky-di
  • When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis?1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King, page 151. From the entry gutter
  • Dot Com, hack-stress extraordinaire.” “Hey.” “And to her lovely left is Tunnel Vision, our resident digger.” “Hey, there, chief.”2018 September 16, Jackson Publick, “The Unicorn in Captivity” (3:07 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 7, episode 7, spoken by…. From the entry sashay
  • Digger had a great time on the walk playing with the other dogs and enjoying the lovely weather.2016 October 6, Clare Damodaran, “Staffords are a loyal and lovable breed that are great with children. Digger had a great time on the…. From the entry Stafford
  • What makes you any different from the digger wasp?2013, Stephen D. Hales, “Freedom”, in This is Philosophy: An Introduction, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, paragraph…. From the entry sphexish
  • Three of them were full already – the diggers had scooped up great gobfuls of concrete and soil.2005, L.J. Adlington, The Diary of Pelly-D, unnumbered page. From the entry gobful
  • Her clam diggers camouflaged her almost to normalcy.1950 July, Helen Gregutt, “Victory”, in Esther R. Bien, editor, The American Girl, New York, N.Y.: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., →ISSN…. From the entry clam diggers
  • Every well-equipped débris digger on the Diamond Fields has a “buddler,” although he may not call it such.1907, The Mining Journal, volume 82. From the entry buddler
  • He circulated freely ' mong the diggers on the U.1901, Alfred George Stephens, The Bulletin Reciter, a Collection of Verses for Recitation From "The Bulletin". From the entry shypoo
  • Her small frame, clothed in clam diggers and a plain white tee, added to the illusion Janelle held a girl, not a woman.2019, Mandy Mikulencak, chapter 3, in Forgiveness Road, John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry clam diggers
  • And on they went, looking at and occasionally talking to metalwrights, watermen, diggers, jackers, electrickmen, chemists, assayers—an Industrial Revolution’s worth of men, al-Wazir realized.2008, Jay Lake, Escapement, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry metalwright
  • Carmen is an official gold digger.2005, Jr. Aaron Bryant, Cupid Is Stupid, page 19. From the entry clock
  • It was said that if a clam digger did not have a clam in the air at all times, he was too slow.2002 December, Katherine Johnson, “Working the Swikshak Beach”, in Buried Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a Clam Cannery on the Katmai Coast…. From the entry clam digger
  • Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Echo Library, published 2007, page 31. From the entry smalls
  • Like all terriers, Staffords are diggers, so it is important to reinforce fences by embedding them in concrete or burying chicken wire at the bottom to prevent escapes.2018 August 7, “Staffordshire Bull Terrier”, in DogTime. From the entry Stafford
  • Digger waved his under his nose and I did the same: the deceptively sweet maple-syrupy smell hit me as it had that evening in LA on Remo’s porch.2012, Cecilia Tan, “Had a Dad”, in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles, Omnibus 1: A Story of Rock and Roll, Coming Out, and Coming of Age in the…. From the entry maple-syrupy
  • From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, page 242. From the entry two-up
  • There's plenty for toddlers too: experience the Wild West in Bear City, play with sand diggers, splash in the paddling pool and discover meerkats, reptiles and alpacas in the Zoo-Farm.2012 May 30, Hayley Spurway, “Top 10 family days out in south Devon”, in the Guardian. From the entry maze
  • Fleets of automated diggers and carts would be manufactured to haul the processed material in to centralized factories, where the material would be gassified and released from tall mobile stacks.1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, page 245. From the entry gasify

Meaning of digger

  1. noun A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
  2. noun A tool for digging.
  3. noun A spade (playing card).

Full definition of digger

Questions about digger in a sentence

How do you use digger in a sentence?
Digger is used as a noun. For example: “The mechanical digger had tanklike treads.”
What is a short sentence with digger?
“Carmen is an official gold digger.”
What does digger mean?
Digger means a large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.

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