How to Use exhume in a Sentence

exhume

verb
Definition of exhumenext
Synonyms for exhumenext
  • The team exhumed the pipe, and opened it up, Hansen said.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But for Haiti, the White House will not be exhumed soon enough.
    — Brian Josephs, The Root, 23 May 2017
  • The ruling could pave the way for hundreds more to be exhumed.
    — Raphael Minder, New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • This spring the team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • As a result of his efforts, the killer’s body was exhumed in 1981.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The 4Runner drives like a bag of rocks pulled by a Clydesdale that was recently exhumed from the Pet Semetary.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2019
  • Go to the cemetery and exhume the bodies and see which one looked too fresh — blood in the vital organs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • He was exhumed, and his ashes were spread at a beach in Malibu.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • However, once the bodies were exhumed the caskets were present in each of the three graves.
    — Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al.com, 28 June 2019
  • Zuckerman also hopes to exhume more of the remains to learn about the lives of the patients.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
  • The site where a dinosaur’s bones are exhumed isn’t the spot that animal lived, but where it was buried.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 15 May 2017
  • Franco is to be exhumed and reburied next to his wife in one of Madrid’s cathedrals.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • In the presence of this wraith, the villagers begin to exhume their own guilty secrets.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Mollie’s body was later exhumed and the true cause of her death revealed.
    — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The files showed that X-35 had been exhumed and sent to Saipan to be identified, along with thousands of others.
    — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This would mean Claire would have to be exhumed and transferred to another one.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • At that point, Weeks said, the bodies were exhumed and buried across the street from Florian Hall in Dorchester.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The sheriff's office exhumed the remains in 2015 to collect more DNA.
    — Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But as the bodies of victims are exhumed, awareness grows.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • Police have exhumed most of the bodies from shallow graves.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In total, the organization has found and exhumed the remains of 272 Marines and sailors from the island over the last decade.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2019
  • The case was closed in 2007, two years after his body was exhumed to perform an autopsy.
    — Zak Koeske, Daily Southtown, 13 July 2018
  • The remains were exhumed again in 2018 and sent to an agency lab in Hawaii for DNA and other analysis.
    — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Several months later, a clan of grave robbers exhumed the film star’s corpse from his grave.
    — Paula Mejia, Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2015
  • In 2015, the Department of Defense announced plans to exhume the remains again.
    — Don Babwin, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The calls at home to exhume the skeletons in the monarchy’s closet are only getting louder.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • In 2005, Emmett’s body was exhumed by the FBI and an autopsy was performed.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • The medical examiner exhumed the body from a shallow grave and from the trash bags.
    — Meagan Flynn, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Compelling us to search and exhume? The strongest sequences in Viet and Nam present new ways to understand this grisly inheritance.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Gein was a grave robber, notorious for exhuming corpses from what was supposed to be their final resting place.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

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