Sample Sentences forexhume (editor-reviewed)
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Investigators want to exhume the body for analysis, but the family is objecting.exhume = unbury a corpse
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No smashing with an ax head before it is decently exhumed from the grave that has hidden it all this time. (source)exhumed = unburied
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Black corpses were routinely exhumed from graves for research, and an under ground shipping industry kept schools in the North supplied with black bodies from the South for anatomy courses. (source)
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The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.† (source)
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In 2003 the authorities agreed to exhume around 30 bodies from a cemetery used by maternity hospital number 6.† (source)
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Kathleen Enstice, a forensic pathologist who worked for the state, was summoned to exhume the infant's body.† (source)
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Months earlier, Wade Lanier had suggested, off the record, that the body be exhumed for toxicity tests.† (source)
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During the next week, some workers, my brother David among them, had to exhume hundreds of bodies from the mass graves where they had been thrown and burn them.† (source)
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With the shovel he began to dig in the sand which the brush had concealed, exhuming one by one six metal tins with screw tops.† (source)
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You now know more about his exhumation than ninety-nine percent of Americans.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton.† (source)
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In December 2010, Booth's descendants agreed to exhume the remains of Edwin Booth to see if DNA from his body is a match for the DNA in the vertebrae housed at Walter Reed.† (source)
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But as for Clyde striking her with it, even accidentally, well, it was decided at that time at least, to contend that he had not—although after exhuming Roberta's body at Biltz it had been found that the marks on her face, even at this date, did correspond in some degree to the size and shape of the camera.† (source)
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This well-known precaution was adopted to prevent the speedy exhumation of the body by some of the carnivorous beasts of the prairie, whose instinct was sure to guide them to the spot.† (source)
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Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure.† (source)
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Other matters occupied us, and I had nearly forgotten the Pengelley tragedy when it was suddenly recalled to me by a short paragraph in the paper which stated that an order to exhume the body of Mrs Pengelley had been obtained from the Home Secretary.† (source)
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