dug

IPA: dˈʌg

noun

  • (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
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Examples of "dug" in Sentences

  • The one and only reason McCain dug her out of a snowbank.
  • The missive said of one student, "The hole she has dug is deeper than the mine shaft in Chile."
  • On the way back he picked up another trail, he once again dug his nose down in the grass to better get on the scent.
  • It blasts up the drifts like white dirt dug from the earth, a frozen burial ground encircling our thin tent, entrapping us.
  • Proof is said to reside in the ancient papyrus documents which archaeologists have dug from the sands of Egypt over the past century and a quarter.
  • They had been made so in a single night, by his mother, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the landslide back of Port Adams.
  • When Christopher Columbus asked the West Indian savages what they called their dug-outs they said _canoas_; so a boat dug out of a solid log had the first right to the word we now use for a canoe built up out of several different parts.
  • _ -- no consecrated one, but one dug ready to receive a corpse; _dug, in savage threatening of slaughter, for the reception of one yet living_ -- the son of the noble owner of that ancient domain -- dug in sight of his father's house, in his own park, by wretches who have warned him to prepare to fill that grave in October!

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