How to Use excavate in a Sentence

excavate

verb

• It is the first site to be excavated in this area.
• They began excavating the backyard for their new pool.
• The excess dirt was carefully excavated.
• They excavated an ancient city.
• For them, the amount of hard work needed to excavate the shaft was not worth it.
  — CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• This year, the drought enabled the researchers to excavate far more of the city.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
• There’s a lot more to excavate than the couple want to believe.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• So far researchers have been able to excavate much of the roundel itself.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
• At the time, a group of divers discovered the wreck and applied for a French permit to excavate the site.
  — Geneva Sands, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Carter’s dream was always to excavate a single site: the Valley of the Kings.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• Daniel Fisher, co-leader of the study, helped excavate the mastodon 24 years ago.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 June 2022
• The other is to excavate or dig up the ash and move it to a dry, lined landfill on higher ground.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2021
• Back in 1984, work on the home began with excavating a large hole in an open field.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
• Leatherbacks, the largest sea turtles in the world, mate at sea, then creep ashore to excavate their nests around the time when winter turns to spring.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
• The duo are planning to return to the hillside next summer to excavate more.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• The following summer, Lyson’s team, with help from the children, went to the site to excavate the fossil.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
• The Rams rely on their scouts to excavate late-round picks and their staff to develop them.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• Dirt filled with traces of lead paint and asbestos that would need to be excavated for a new basement.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2024
• With so much to excavate, the only thing more impressive than the deepness is the lightness.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• That is to excavate ash out of unlined pits and move it into dry, lined storage.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2021
• Researchers spent one and a half years excavating the area.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
• Close by, researchers found the slave lodgings and began to excavate.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• But in 2010, instead of planting, the family watched four men with shovels excavate and haul away the soil.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• Drought in the region briefly caused part of the settlement to resurface in 2018, allowing Puljiz and her team to excavate sections of the palace.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 June 2022
• Elephants use them as tools to strip bark from trees and excavate minerals from soil.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2021
• Crews have since been working around the clock to excavate an 180 inch storm drain to allow rainwater to flow through the system, Mitchell said.
  — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2022
• To restore the structure, the Well Guy excavated and removed the mud, discovering that the well is 17-feet deep.
  — House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2023
• Ai went on a mission to excavate an untold story of punks in the chaotic world of Vietnamese New Wave, one that led her to a deeper cultural truth.
  — Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• The grief of losing my childhood home, and the grief of seeing the little hill on which my childhood home stands gradually parceled out and excavated to make way for new housing estates.
  — Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024