excavate

Example Sentences

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Inmates dug through rubble to excavate their own jailers, said relatives of current prisoners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Large impact basins or craters excavate deep into the asteroid, which gives clues about what its interior is made of," said Namya Baijal, a doctoral candidate at the LPL and first author of the paper.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

No longer visible to the naked eye and too big to realistically excavate very quickly, they made narrow boreholes to take samples of the material from the features.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

My brother has claimed one of them for his own; he plans to excavate it, tunneling down from the top, then in from the side to make a side entrance.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood