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.
• 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
• Carter’s dream was always to excavate a single site: the Valley of the Kings.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• The duo are planning to return to the hillside next summer to excavate more.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• With so much to excavate, the only thing more impressive than the deepness is the lightness.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• Researchers spent one and a half years excavating the area.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
• To restore the structure, the Well Guy excavated and removed the mud, discovering that the well is 17-feet deep.
  — House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2023
• The soil under the south tracks was excavated as part of the clean-up effort that has been ongoing since the Feb. 2 derailment.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 17 Apr. 2023
• The teeth were excavated from an ancient cemetery found in 2005.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• But the older Ford hero excavates this idea, polishes it up, and foregrounds it.
  — Vulture, 10 July 2023
• The well has been excavated but will remain in a raw state; the final design around its cap is to be determined.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Ketchum House is a single-story structure that was lifted in the 1940s to excavate the ground to create a basement.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
• Since 2011, experts have been working to excavate the city.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The vertebrae are so weighty that the team could excavate only one or two each year, Salas-Gismondi says.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• Humans had cut down the old pine trees, chiefly Longleaf Pine, that the birds excavate cavities in for roosting and nesting.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Misty, who was firmly in Lottie’s camp earlier in the episode, can’t resist the promise of food and goes to help excavate the moose, to Mari’s chagrin.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
• Now her new memoir animates the same land while excavating the past in prose.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
• The blow excavated a 30-foot-wide crater and blasted dusty debris into space.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The soil was first excavated from a hill that was leveled behind one of the district’s elementary schools in 2018.
  — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Mabry said that in the early 2010s, the EPA sampled his soil but only tested the edges of his yard and didn’t find enough pollutants there to excavate it and replace it with clean soil.
  — Shane Loeffler, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2022
• Their remains are still excavated in the depths of the desert, while border wall construction threatens the landscape.
  — Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2023
• By Friday, the technicians had been able to excavate the passenger side of the convertible, which was buried with its top down.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• The other option is to excavate and move the ash to a lined landfill or direct it to beneficial uses.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Columns Group and Church Group have been extensively excavated, restored, and now open to the public.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• The archeological project to fully excavate the pool will last a few years.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024