How to Use uncover in a Sentence

uncover

verb
  • Archaeologists uncovered the ruins of an ancient city.
  • Police uncovered a criminal plot.
  • Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth.
    Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Our team wants to hear your tips, chase the leads and uncover the truth.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The film uncovers the story of the crash that took the lives of so many and looms over the world of motorsports to this day.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • At this time, the baths were uncovered and were for men only.
    Liz Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Watch the fat melt off your body and uncover the shredded physique that’s been hiding.
    Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Running all over the place doesn’t uncover more of the island’s map.
    George Yang, Variety, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But there were many details to uncover: How much work had been done and when?
    Alene Tchekmedyianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Spread the carrots out in the dish and return to the oven, uncovered, to roast until browned, about 20 minutes.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Just how long the work will take depends on what sort of issues are uncovered, Mann said.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Remove the skillet from the heat, uncover and let cool for about 15 minutes.
    Bill Esparza, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Now, his medical team will work to uncover the cause and next steps.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 26 July 2023
  • There's still time to find presents for those special people on your list, and where better to uncover the perfect, unique gift than at a craft show?
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Turn off the heat and let the rice sit for 10 minutes, then uncover, fluff with a fork and cover again if needed to keep warm until serving.
    Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The secret to the barbecue’s splendid flavor isn’t hard to uncover: just peek around the back of the building at the massive mounds of split oak logs beside the pit house.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Tiffany also acquired 35 pink diamonds this year from the Argyle mine—among the last lots uncovered—then turned around and sold the group to a single client.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The goal of analyzing a dream about money is to uncover what triggered the dream in question.
    Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The biggest mysteries that researchers aim to uncover are why the battle occurred and who fought in it.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The search for that truth uncovers deeper ones still, in the process unearthing hatchets that had seemed buried and reopening wounds that had appeared healed.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Entrepreneurs must dig deep to uncover these insights and use them to inform their strategies.
    Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 19 July 2024
  • The man’s remains were uncovered in a peat bog in Vittrup, Denmark, during peat cutting in 1915.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to some advances in gene-editing technology, a new clue to ape tail loss has been uncovered.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Green said that the sand is pretty dynamic there, but the wreck of the Major Anderson is often uncovered.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Unearthed In the mountains of Uzbekistan, a research team used lasers strapped to a flying robot to uncover two cities buried and lost for centuries.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Despite years of unanswered questions, Karen's friends, family and Dyersburg community members remain committed to uncovering the truth of that night.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024

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