The dog dug up a nickel in the backyard.

Meaning: This sentence describes a dog finding a five-cent coin by digging in the backyard.

Choice of Words: Nickel is a coin worth five cents. Backyard is the area of land behind a house. Dug up means to remove something from the ground by digging. When you put them together, "dug up a nickel in the backyard" means the dog used its paws to remove a five-cent coin from the ground behind the house.

Alternative Expressions

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