exhume

Example Sentences

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Breaking for health tests, Ruci stayed there until October 7, when judicial authorities agreed to exhume his son's body for toxicology tests.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Yet commonalities remain: One remedy for vampirism, found on several continents, was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

On the precipice of turning 40, somewhere halfway through this marathon of a life, I want to exhume what I feel I’ve abandoned and lost.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

“I watch a lot of true crime, and they exhume bodies all the time. It’s not unusual,” she blithely says.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024

Shady could get almost nothing to exhume an almost- unknown pile of rocks on the coast.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann