How to Use excavation in a Sentence

excavation

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  • The stone is named after the excavation site and is now being called the Svingerud Stone.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Now the excavation has finished, offices, stores and homes will be built on the site.
    — Caolán Magee, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • This is the fourth excavation started by the city of Tulsa.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
  • At the excavation site, the FBI crew parted to allow them through.
    — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • Her lab has been involved with the case since the initial excavation.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There is a plan for space for visitors to the pool to view the ongoing excavation.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The castle was built above the cave long before any excavation.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There have been excavations of little bits here and there, j... a few buildings, not a ton.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This Saturday, the site will briefly open to the public, and researchers will be on hand to discuss the excavation’s progress.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • So far, hundreds of caves have been searched and 24 excavations carried out over six years.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The pair, who were at least 55 years old, were found during excavations of the Insula of the House of the Chaste Lovers during work to improve the safety of the building.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • The relic has undergone excavation for a decade and only opened to the public in 2018.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023
  • Each burial site added days to the excavation, to the frustration of the county and its consultants.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The excavation revealed the legs of great statues and the bases of towering columns.
    — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The area was taped off like a crime scene, and law enforcement worked with archeologists to launch an excavation of the site.
    — The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The rune was found in fall 2021 in a grave excavation west of Oslo, reports The Associated Press.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Jan. 2023
  • This is the second excavation to occur at the cemetery.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The latest finds are part of an excavation project into a series of rooms in a domus (home) that began in 2018.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The view from atop Charco Verde II during the 2021 excavation season.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The excavation site is near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire and about 50 miles west of London.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Try to avoid areas with a lot of dust like construction or excavation sites.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Arnold says the hope is to have the project, which will require dirt excavation as well as concrete work, ready for an unveiling ahead of the 2025 spring sports season.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Soon, the village clergy allowed the excavation of the village church, where Dr. Khamisy said Iron Age pottery was dug up.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The first major excavations at Olympia, the Greek sanctuary that hosted the ancient Games, began in the 1870s.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
  • This temple was covered in sand and was quite easy to expose compared to most excavations, Muro Ynoñan says.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
  • After hours of excavation, the team found 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The teeth were uncovered during a 2005 excavation of the remains of a Christian church in present-day Skara, Sweden.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the remains in question came from excavations of burial mounds across North Dakota.
    — Joshua Irvine, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There was a small diary, cream-colored with a red spine, as well as a larger ring binder—Carter’s excavation journal.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In the process, Lynne found a camaraderie and safe space for free-flowing collaboration and emotional excavation.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024

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