unearth

Example Sentences

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Miners were using picks, shovels and bare hands to unearth rocks rich with metal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Meanwhile, Brewdog threatened legal proceedings against one of the BBC's US-based contributors and sent private detectives to try to unearth dirt on at least one of our UK-based interviewees.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Actors are always trying to research and unearth and unpack to get to that state, but we could walk on set and already have that.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

I do my own taxes, so I’m my own grouchy accountant, barking at myself to unearth various forms.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

He’d made a rough copy of the map they’d found on it with a pencil and some paper, but he wanted to see if he could unearth anything else useful.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner