excavations

plural of excavation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for excavations
Noun
  • Kayaking - While kayaking can be a leisurely activity, strong currents or capsizing can require emergency services, especially in more remote locations like sea caves.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Known as knockers in England, kobolds also live in caves and mines and make knocking noises directing human miners where to dig.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This clay molding process was known to preserve the form of soft animals in oxygen-poor areas, such as the muds at the bottom of lagoons and deep-sea trenches, Sereno says.
    Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The discoveries span worms, mollusks, and crustaceans collected from habitats ranging from shallow waters to the ocean’s deepest trenches.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The big feathery cottonwoods along the ditches were just turning then, flaunting great masses of clear, bright yellow against the transparent blue of the southern Arizona sky.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In heavy rain, refrain from parking or walking near culverts or drainage ditches, where swift-moving water can pose a grave danger.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What fantastic fantasies will lure risk-seeking treasure hunters to breach the massive walls of iron thorns surrounding mysterious radioactive caverns buried deep in the deserts?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • With a cool, constant temperature of 54 degrees, the caverns are a perfect year-round adventure.
    Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Not camping, sleeping or resting near animal burrows or areas where dead rodents are observed.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The courtyard is outfitted with several fire pits and is a nice place to hang out, and the property regularly hosts outdoor yoga classes as well.
    Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In warm weather, rent a paddleboard from the hotel and glide across Lake Estes, or warm up around the fire pits or in the dry sauna.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Thus far, 10 have been inspected from a site at the north end of SONGS that holds the canisters in vertical cavities.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even with the rise of fluoride in toothpaste and other products, it’s credited with a 25% decrease in cavities.
    Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The two No 10s largely avoid the sort of slack passes and heavy touches that have previously halted United from properly settling into their attacking grooves.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The track starts with a pulsating Simmons bass riff, setting the tone for one of Kiss' funkier guitar grooves.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Excavations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excavations. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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