Wondering how to use Exhume in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as excavate.
Exhume meaning
- To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
- To uncover; to bring to light.
Synonyms of Exhume
Using Exhume
- The main meaning on this page is: To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | To uncover; to bring to light.
- Useful related words include: disinter, excavate, dig up, turn up.
- In the example corpus, exhume often appears in combinations such as: to exhume, exhume the, would exhume.
Context around Exhume
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Exhume
- In this selection, "exhume" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, away, families, satterfield, myself and richard stand out and add context to how "exhume" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allowed to exhume cheema s and begun to exhume and transfer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "exhume" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with exhume
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On police’s application, a sessions judge allowed to exhume Cheema’s body. (13 words)
State investigators have also said they would exhume Satterfield’s body as part of the investigation. (16 words)
Those, which include the two Gill wants to exhume, are buried in a cemetery on the Hartford-Windsor town line. (20 words)
By 0630 GMT, two black funeral cars could be seen outside the complex, with Spanish public television saying the operation had begun to exhume and transfer his remains to San Isidro cemetery in Madrid where he will be laid alongside other family members. (43 words)
Jackson’s true identity was a mystery until very recently, as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the state Medical Examiner’s Office coordinated to exhume the body only last year in hopes of figuring it out. (37 words)
Embark on a bone-rattling post-apocalyptic adventure through an undead world, now more vibrant than ever, to exhume the mysteries of the past,” reads an official pitch of the remake. (31 words)
Example sentences (15)
By 0630 GMT, two black funeral cars could be seen outside the complex, with Spanish public television saying the operation had begun to exhume and transfer his remains to San Isidro cemetery in Madrid where he will be laid alongside other family members.
State investigators have also said they would exhume Satterfield’s body as part of the investigation.
This week, the judge rejected a request by the defense to exhume the body of Randall Bowers, Bowers’ father who died by suicide in 1979.
Embark on a bone-rattling post-apocalyptic adventure through an undead world, now more vibrant than ever, to exhume the mysteries of the past,” reads an official pitch of the remake.
Jackson’s true identity was a mystery until very recently, as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the state Medical Examiner’s Office coordinated to exhume the body only last year in hopes of figuring it out.
At this point, the quarantine lifestyle influencers would have advised me to step away, exhume myself from my internet cocoon, maybe listen to “Va Va Voom” on a Zune.
Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf.
In 2012, she led the charge to exhume Richard’s skeleton, which she believed to be under a car park in the UK city of Leicester.
The similarities in the “signs of disorientation and confusion” both Peter and Ann displayed — along with her “white powder” claims — prompted detectives to exhume Peter’s body.
Those, which include the two Gill wants to exhume, are buried in a cemetery on the Hartford-Windsor town line.
At least 10 persons were arraigned by the Chief Magistrate Court 1 Minna for allegedly conspiring to exhume a corpse from burial ground and cut off the head for ritual purpose.
Later officials said they would exhume bodies of the crew to test for poison or intoxicants, but it’s unclear whether that actually happened.
On police’s application, a sessions judge allowed to exhume Cheema’s body.
As a result of pressure from France, the US and the UK, Spain abandoned Western Sahara on November 14, 1975, going so far as to even exhume Spanish corpses from cemeteries.
In December 2010, descendants of Edwin Booth reported that they obtained permission to exhume the Shakespearean actor's body to obtain DNA samples.
Common combinations with exhume
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to exhume 10×
- exhume the 5×
- would exhume 2×