excavated
Example Sentences
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On Thursday, workers excavated a 3-by 4-foot area to find the source of the water, plugged the leak and resumed preparing the street to open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Nicolas Cage bought a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull at auction in 2007 for $276,000, but later found out it was illegally excavated from Mongolia and had to return it, Cage told “The Hollywood Reporter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The bunker was built within two of the seven tunnels excavated beneath Brackla Hill during World War Two to store munitions from the nearby Royal Ordnance factory.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The impact would have instantly excavated the crater while blasting huge volumes of rock, sediment, and seawater into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
He was certain that a shipwreck could be excavated with the same scientific care and precision as archaeologists working on land.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
