Sentence example with the word 'excavate'

excavate

avulse, deepen, disclose, drill, exsect, gouge out, pick out, remove, scrabble, trench, weed out

Definition v. recover through digging

Last update: December 6, 2017


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Working in groups of three, the miners used small blasts of dynamite to excavate a channel down to the entombed men.   [verb]

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Alternatively, explosions create cavities, for example, as bombs excavate bomb craters.   [verb]

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Of all these writers, the one who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was Restif de La Bretonne.   [verb]

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Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer itself.   [verb]

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ASI excavated a buried town in Brindavan.   [verb]

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The catacombs of Rome are excavated in lava, and Tuscany contains strong evidences of volcanic action.   [noun]

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There was a void in his memory, a black spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.   [verb]

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For a few yards the centre of the building seems to have never been excavated, as to which you will convince yourself.   [adverb]

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