Sentence examples for excavate in from inspiring English sources

All Mr. Fallon was doing, though, was beginning to excavate in a more immediately recognizable way.

"I'm interested in how many layers you can excavate in personality," she says.

Piciform birds that excavate their nests usually choose dead or dying trees, but some excavate in live trees or cacti.

"The French were the first to excavate in Egypt, and the British and Germans were trying to catch up".

Porifera of the family Clionidae (class Demospongiae) live in galleries they excavate in shells of mollusks, in corals, in limestone, and in other calcareous materials.

"Every archaeologist who comes to excavate in Greenland... starts out with his or her own idea about where all those missing fish bones might be hiding," he writes.

However, only 25 trees were excavated in year 3. Nine trees were excavated in year 4, and no excavations occurred in years 5 and 6 due to increasing work load and diminishing resources.

The city was initially excavated in 1884.

The mastodon was excavated in Washington State in the 1970s.

Nests are excavated in banks or in steep hills.

Most of the objects were excavated in the last 30 years.