dug-in

Each night for a week, he took a shovel and dug in the monastery gardens, searching for the priests treasure.

The dugout was a room dug in the side of a hill. A few rails or posts were used to make a door frame and, possibly, a window.

Hereupon he thought that where the key was, the lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest.

Nolan and many of his colleagues had never been on strike, but they made beds out of cardboard on the chilly shopfloor and dug in.

He explored and dug in his new sand area and finally curled up around his new plants as if he had at last found heaven.

Now he believed that where there was a key, there must also be a lock, so he dug in the ground and found a little iron chest.

The Arab Spring appeared to flagging a few months ago, as Libya's opposition suffered setbacks even as Syria's regime dug-in.

He said Muammar Gaddafi's troops have dug in and the drones are needed to operate in urban areas and minimise collateral damage.

So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

With his sharp claws, Coyote dug in the bank and made heaps of clay.

On the next day Union troops dug in on those hills and on Cemetery Ridge, running two miles southward to Little Round Top.

Their first home is usually a den, which can be a small cave or a hole dug in the ground.

Another high-scoring game appeared to be on the cards, but Birmingham dug in to deny Arsenal.

They dug in and waited for the enemy's attack.

She dug in, took art lessons and signed up for a six-week summer course at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Random fighting continued in pockets, with loyalist forces dug in around the city's southern outskirts.

There was one battle, when we supported the infantry. We had tanks in our tank scout company dug in, we guarded the headquarters.

At sites known to be used by the security forces, holes were being dug in which to burn and bury documents, tapes and CD recordings.

One of the bodies was discovered in a shallow grave dug in the basement of the property.

He has been holed up in the commercial capital, Abidjan; Mr Gbagbo has defiantly dug in there too.

Mr Muivah, a 75-year-old former guerrilla, has meanwhile dug in his heels and is camping with his followers near the border.

We then began to "picnic" , a pit dug in the ground, the peanut on the inside.

Invid soldiers were butchering them from dug-in positions close to the base of the hive.

But in its most recent proposals fasb dug in its heels, calling for most of them to be given at fair value.

Then he roughly dug in with his heels, rubbing and tearing away the tender flesh from the stumps of the once-beautiful tusks.

If you are seeking an image for Asian growth, you could do worse than the giant holes being dug in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Johnson is said to be dug in, entrenched, refusing to report to training camp until he has a new contract.

He was standing by the pit he had dug in the dry sand, with a huge water pot beside it.

Once there, Mr Saxena (pictured left) dug in his heels during what became Canada's longest-ever extradition case.

After the long wait, the guests dug in without saying anything to the host.

Toward the end, my stepmother claimed that I was supposed to present my book reports to the family, but I dug in.

When I tried to get the car salesman to lower his prices, he became ornery and dug in his heels. See also Synonyms at b opposite.

The employees wanted high wages, but with the support from the board the CEO dug in his heels over their idea.

The splash of pieces of seashells lay scattered on the beach and small holes covered the sand where the crabs had dug in.

In Tahrir, protesters have dug in for the long haul.

Even so, South Korea has been singled out as an example of how being dug in, once seen as a virtue, is fast becoming a liability.

Often the German troops dug in under the hedgerows and thus mortar fire had little effect.

Yahoo! 's founder and chief executive, Jerry Yang, dug in his heels and rebuffed the offer.

The Ministry of Land and Resources announced last week that 1, 100 new wells would be dug in 10 counties, including Li's, by the end of May.

The homemade aroma was irresistible and I dug in my wallet for roubles.

Henderson agreed to close down Pontiac all together, but dug in on his heels to keep Buick and GMC.

They dug in west of the bridge, therefore, and posted a man back to Cao Cao.

Before she started, she wanted to know if the author was Chinese, and once I assured her he was, she dug in.

Tell Grant to keep the GMU dug in and wait for my word to move in.

Holes are dug in a flat lawn, a sign flag to indicate where the hole.

But the lads dug in and showed good character to snatch a point at the end.

For instance , six months after entering the mature stage , we dug in a corner of talents will be more apparent .

Microsoft withdrew a $47. 5 billion offer for Yahoo on Saturday after the Internet company dug in for a higher price.

Though Tripoli is now under a kind of siege, the government is still dug in.

Russia has also dug in its heels at the UN Security Council, so as to limit sanctions on Iran.

It really is a little bit out of place temporally. It looks nothing like what we would find if we dug in contemporary beds in North America.

Well, our desserts arrived, and we dug in without a moment's hesitation.

Hamas is well dug in with underground bunkers, and likely has many traps set for our soldiers.

Robert dug in right away when the hamburger was served since he felt hungry.

Emergency wells are being dug in the region of Tarragona to supply the tanker ships.

We laid down our bikes along the round tables and dug in.

Every time a shovel dug in, a head would roll out or a mutilated torso would appear.

Depression, usually a pit or a trough in the stream gravel, dug in preparation for, or during, spawning .

Democrats and Republicans are dug in like soldiers at Verdun over what to do about the sputtering U. S. economy.

The soldiers have dug in along the river.

ditch: a LONG. narrow trench or furrow dug in the ground, as for irrigation, drainage, or a boundary line.

We played very well last week, but this week we dug in and these are the type of games we've been losing, so it was nice to win.

The wells of the Sahara are mere holes dug in the sand.

Col. Gadhafi is dug in in Tripoli and nearby cities.

That pile of earth came from the hole we dug in the ground.

After they brought the ice cream, everyone dug in with their spoons.

Finally, I dug, and dug in my mind the most beautiful and pure crystal.

The manure should be well dug in.

A narrow hole was dug in the street, then widened out below.

At that time, an old lady dug in the ground of the field and picked the roots of the dandelions.

But he who had received the one went off and dug in the earth and hid his master's money.

He dug in his spurs.

The first is that foreign carmakers, which operate in China through joint ventures with local partners, are well dug in.

Unlike an open dump, it is a pit that is dug in the ground.

Behind us is the Number One Pit of Kailuan Coal Mine. It was dug in 1878 as the first pit in China which was dug with machines.

Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

19Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered there a fresh water spring.

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The plant cultivation method of the present invention is that: firstly, a planting pit with a proper size is dug in nursery garden;

John dug in and finished his homework very quickly

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