exhume

Example Sentences

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It may be possible to learn more about Poe’s death by exhuming his body from its resting place in a Baltimore graveyard and examining his skull for signs of markings caused by meningitis.

From Washington Post

Iraqi villagers on May 14 after they had exhumed the remains of up to 3,000 people from a mass grave in Mahawil, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.

From New York Times

With the Italian Embassy closely following the case, Cheema’s body was exhumed.

From Seattle Times

It exhumed the bodies and, within six years, would positively identify the vast majority of the crewmen.

From Washington Post

But exhuming victims can be fraught, cautions Susan Pollock, an archaeologist at the Free University of Berlin who has excavated World War II–era sites in Germany.

From Science Magazine