How to Use exhume in a Sentence

exhume

verb

• Remains found on adjoining land are exhumed for later burial on the Harambee property.
  — Michael Hill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• The team exhumed the pipe, and opened it up, Hansen said.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
• The ruling could pave the way for hundreds more to be exhumed.
  — Raphael Minder, New York Times, 7 July 2018
• This spring the team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known.
  — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The 4Runner drives like a bag of rocks pulled by a Clydesdale that was recently exhumed from the Pet Semetary.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2019
• Go to the cemetery and exhume the bodies and see which one looked too fresh — blood in the vital organs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• He was exhumed, and his ashes were spread at a beach in Malibu.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• However, once the bodies were exhumed the caskets were present in each of the three graves.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al.com, 28 June 2019
• Franco is to be exhumed and reburied next to his wife in one of Madrid’s cathedrals.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Mollie’s body was later exhumed and the true cause of her death revealed.
  — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The files showed that X-35 had been exhumed and sent to Saipan to be identified, along with thousands of others.
  — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
• This would mean Claire would have to be exhumed and transferred to another one.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
• At that point, Weeks said, the bodies were exhumed and buried across the street from Florian Hall in Dorchester.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The sheriff's office exhumed the remains in 2015 to collect more DNA.
  — Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• But as the bodies of victims are exhumed, awareness grows.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Police have exhumed most of the bodies from shallow graves.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Apr. 2023
• In total, the organization has found and exhumed the remains of 272 Marines and sailors from the island over the last decade.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2019
• The case was closed in 2007, two years after his body was exhumed to perform an autopsy.
  — Zak Koeske, Daily Southtown, 13 July 2018
• The remains were exhumed again in 2018 and sent to an agency lab in Hawaii for DNA and other analysis.
  — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
• In 2015, the Department of Defense announced plans to exhume the remains again.
  — Don Babwin, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
• The calls at home to exhume the skeletons in the monarchy’s closet are only getting louder.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• In 2005, Emmett’s body was exhumed by the FBI and an autopsy was performed.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• Her body was exhumed in 2017, and DNA testing was done, officials said.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
• The ministry added that bad weather had forced a halt to efforts to exhume bodies at the remote 800-acre site in a forest to the north of Mombasa.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Walter and Wanda are willing to have graves opened and the remains exhumed to discover who was buried and when.
  — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
• After Dexter Wade's remains were exhumed, his gravesite in the pauper's field was smoothed over.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• In April 2013, Mr. Neruda’s body was exhumed under orders from a judge.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• And though the operation to exhume the gems was exhausted by the end of that century, the project yielded some of the finest sapphires on earth.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2023
• There's quite an array of stuff down there that's been exhumed from the past and brought back to modern day Detroit, almost as if through a time portal.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2024
• In 2019, officials exhumed Grubb's body for DNA samples – all of which came back inconclusive.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024