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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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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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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Months earlier, Wade Lanier had suggested, off the record, that the body be exhumed for toxicity tests.† (source)
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The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.† (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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The museum's owners, however, balked at buying Oswald's original pine casket, which was replaced after his body was exhumed in 1981, saying it was too macabre.† (source)
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We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable—Yes, Judith, Bon, Henry, Sutpen: all of them.† (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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They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon.† (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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