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

“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

Unwilling to leave this photograph in the archive, Thorsson, now an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, decided to exhume the story behind the image.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Kathleen Enstice, a forensic pathologist who worked for the state, was summoned to exhume the infant's body.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson