Excavating in a sentence

After they started excavating it, they figured that it goes at least six metres underneath the ground.

He is one of the leaders of the museum-affiliated team that normally spends weeks each year in the village of Sakkara, just south of Cairo, excavating tombs of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.

Police removed crime scene tape and reopened the block last week after excavating the home’s yard and removing a cache of more than 300 guns from a vault in the basement.

She spent two days excavating it, alongside the British Museum's Dr Andrew Brown.

Since fall 2020, Schablitsky and her team have been excavating public and private property that was once part of the farm.

The archaeologists have been excavating the site of Peeterristi Church, which was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War.

This event revealed the existence of a large hollow space under the house, suggesting that Israeli machinery has been excavating in that area.

Archaeologists from the University of York are now excavating the site at Skipsea in East Yorkshire, where the medieval structure was found.

Excavating with a trowel is a slow, but strangely relaxing process.

Fisher Excavating is on the cover this issue, and they are well-known for working on waterfront properties to save them from erosion etc – but also are strong stewards for environmental care within the law.

For example, Israeli researchers have been excavating around Tel al-Safi for quite a number of years.

In April 1974, the York Archaeological Trust were excavating the site of the lost church of St Helen-on-the-Walls, at Aldwark.

Key local companies that offered discounts or donated time and/or materials included K&E Excavating, Withers Lumber, James Hardie Siding, H&H Paving and Mustang Truss.

Next week, construction crews will undertake various tasks such as clearing the roadside, improving landscaping, replacing chain-link fences, excavating for rock blankets, and completing additional assignments.

Over 200 million euros was spent on excavating and removing antiquities dating to the Hellenistic era, some of which were subsequently incorporated into the new stations.

Scottish Power engineers will be excavating the road to replace two link boxes, with the works estimated to take around two weeks to complete.

She funded expeditions run by Flinders Petrie, whom she appreciated for his gentle excavating and thrift.

Stoppard’s 2020 play had a seriousness that chimed with theatre’s current mood, and in interviews that preceded it, he talked about how excavating his family’s painful history made him grateful to have escaped life under communism.

They were discovered in a nine-by-11.5-foot room in a house that archaeologists started excavating in 2023.

This means that HS2’s fleet of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are excavating and building a total of 54.8 miles of tunnel.