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How to use diggings in a sentence

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The majority of tench fishing takes place in natural loughs or loughs produced by peat diggings.
Indeed, there are long mole-like tunnel diggings criss-crossing everywhere.
They were followed two years later by large numbers of Chinese men on their way to the Victorian gold diggings.
He was keen enough to walk to the diggings at Yam Creek Reef where he camped with a party of prospectors from Kapunda.
The pits began to fill with water, making the peat more difficult to extract and eventually the diggings were abandoned.
From that location, they could see to the north twenty miles to the Crow Creek diggings just west of the Missouri River.
After a stint at the Victorian diggings he returned more than a pound of gold to his brother Patrick with the first Gold Escort.
Continued exploration in the Ontonagon area revealed more of these ancient diggings that contained visible signs of copper, some in large masses.
Here he became the most recognised of all artists who recorded life on the diggings.
The diggings were exhausted and all the miners had departed to new strikes on Germansen Creek.
Gold exports started to fall towards the end of the century as diggings were exhausted.
He found a city bristling with the tents of fortune seekers on their way to the gold diggings.
A small group built a stockade at the Eureka diggings and flew their rebel flag with the Southern Cross on it.
Fishing and labouring in the archaeological diggings are the principal occupations, but the island has also become a resort.
Other shops are likely supplied by unauthorized or illegal deep well diggings.
The Stewart, a much larger stone, was found in 1872 in the river diggings, known as Waldeck's Plant, on the Vaal.
Nearby you'll find dinosaur diggings and Eagles Nest, a rock structure shaped like the top of Australia.
Archaeological diggings have shown that it has been inhabited since prehistoric times!
The first large diamond found in this country was discovered in 1869 in the river diggings, and is known as the Star of South Africa.
You yourself should stop them at the highway, near the place where a backhoe is conducting some diggings.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These washings or diggings have been among the richest and most productive in California.
It is this that forces us to seek his diggings, to trace, if possible, his footsteps.
Kazbek is their diggings, a pretty large district, but not so extensive as Elbruz.
The very time that he swore he was on his way from San Francisco to the diggings!
In May of that year there were about a hundred men at the diggings in the Vaal fields.
No chance that one of them pitched the thing into the diggings for an Earthside sensation?
The profits obtained in some cases of extensive deep diggings and hydraulic mining are very great.
The diggings were in the mountain side at varying distances.
I shipped to Melbourne as third mate on a barque, and I deserted for the diggings in the usual course.
I come down from the diggings with Mr. Overton this morning.
I know what this freezeout proposition was when it was placer diggings.
Among the rubbish of the diggings, fragments of hornstone occur.
Within a fortnight, however, I met the good man face to face upon the diggings.
Then it is clear that you have never seen the diamond diggings at Kimberley.
In brazil the diggings were not so extensive nor so rich as in this state.
The Palmer diggings are now deserted, as they are said to be unworkable.
Also he saw the heavy freighters pulling down the main street and heading up the frozen Klondike toward the imagined somewhere where the diggings must be located.
The miners were in from Moseyed Creek and the other diggings to the west, the summer washing had been good, and the men's pouches were heavy with dust and nuggets.
I could not afford it at that time, but I talked golden instead, California gold, nuggets and nuggets, oodles and oodles, from the diggings of forty-nine and fifty.
She recognised most of the things which she had known in his old diggings.
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