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 other bombs ended up in an area of the site that has not yet been excavated.
  — Fox News, 9 July 2019
• 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
• Some will excavate and seek out rotten wood and the nest won’t be visible.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al.com, 1 July 2019
• The Witches Are Coming, excavates the corners of her brain.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Along with the palace, Earley-Spadoni said her team is excavating houses in nearby areas in hopes of learning what daily life would have looked like for the average person in Qabra.
  — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
• As many of the scrolls were excavated over the years, efforts to mechanically unroll them failed, often causing further damage.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025