How to Use exhume in a Sentence

exhume

verb

• In the presence of this wraith, the villagers begin to exhume their own guilty secrets.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Efforts to exhume them, however, have been compromised by landmines planted by rebels in the area.
  — Jon Rosen, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
• Two weeks ago, Gabriel's body was exhumed to retrieve his tablet computer, which his mother tucked into his casket.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2017
• He was exhumed 140 years later in an attempt to lay to rest rumors that he was murdered because of his stance on slavery.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 Aug. 2017
• A Spanish court has ordered that his body be exhumed from its 28-year slumber in order to take part in a paternity test.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 26 June 2017
• The big reveal: exhuming Holmes body from a cemetery right outside of Philadelphia.
  — Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 11 July 2017
• The City Council earlier this year decided not to allow any more bodies to be exhumed out of respect for the dead, Pagan said.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2017
• Still, Allen is tickled by the prospect of exhuming a tapeworm from elephant dung during his next field-research trip, on the Italian side of the Traversette.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• Compelling us to search and exhume? The strongest sequences in Viet and Nam present new ways to understand this grisly inheritance.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• As a result of his efforts, the killer’s body was exhumed in 1981.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Remains found on adjoining land are exhumed for later burial on the Harambee property.
  — Michael Hill, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024