Sandhogs

Word SANDHOGS
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What do we mean by sandhogs?

A person employed to dig tunnels.

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The word "sandhogs" in example sentences

The water system of New York isn’t in great shape with two giant pipes built long ago that are in much need of repair, while the new tunnel being built by sandhogs is not scheduled to be completed until 2020; meanwhile either of the two old tunnels could give at any moment, depriving the people of New York with water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Paddy, by the way, fellows, is my right-hand man in managing the 'sandhogs' as we call the tunnel-workers. ❋ Unknown (1908)

There's the curious case of a garroted Sherlock Holmes expert; the 23-year-old Frenchman who cons an American family into thinking he is their missing teenage son; the secret world of "sandhogs" digging water tunnels under New York. ❋ By IHSAN TAYLOR (2011)

Of course if he wants to come to LA to see the star for himself the Governor will have to stay out of the specially made concrete shoes that the soon to be out of work sandhogs and other construction workers are making for him. ❋ Joel Epstein (2010)

Because the plan I'm proposing involves as much if not more work for them and the union iron workers and sandhogs than the high-speed rail. ❋ Joel Epstein (2011)

There is the world’s foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City’s water tunnels before the old system collapses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I look forward to the day when we will be presenting similar awards to the engineers and sandhogs who tunnel their way to Santa Monica, connect the San Fernando Valley to Westwood, build the downtown regional connector, and complete 30/10's other critical transportation projects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The forward-leaning Grecian Bend, aka Grecian Bends, is of particular interest as the origin of the old term 'the bends' for decompression sickness (due to resemblance to the posture in sandhogs suffering the pains of 'caisson sickness' after working in pressurised caissons for the Brookyln Bridge foundations). ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

When the sandhogs were digging the subways years ago the soupy ground around Canal Street would flood the shaft. ❋ Jeffery Deaver (2001)

Nina marveled at the skill and determination of long dead Bronze Age sandhogs. ❋ CLIVE CUSSLER (2000)

There were sandhogs and riggers and welders and ship fitters and two circus acrobats. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

The photographer Gina LeVay recently documented the labors of sandhogs who have been digging City Water Tunnel No. 3, eight hundred feet below Manhattan. ❋ Newyorker.com (2011)

In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs - black, white, Irish, Italian, Polish - dig together in the darkness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I became fascinated with the sandhogs soon after I arrived in New York City in the 1980s," ❋ Unknown (2008)

- a trip underground with the sandhogs to tour the construction of the Second Avenue subway line, an infrastructure project more than 50 years behind schedule and Dr. Jim Mead of East Tennessee State University, who oversees the largest collection of prehistoric dung in the world ❋ Unknown (2010)

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