Sentence examples for were exhumed from inspiring English sources
verb
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
- The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.
As suspicion bloomed, Annie and Walter's bodies were exhumed.
Thousands more, who might have died naturally and remained buried, were exhumed en masse.
The urns were exhumed in 1989 and entrusted to the library for safekeeping.
Dead birds, some of which were exhumed, were shipped to Washington.
His remains were exhumed on Tuesday on orders from President Asif Ali Zardari's office.
Their remains were exhumed from mass graves and handed over to the United Nations authorities.
Although her tombstone remains, her bones were exhumed and reburied in genteel Bournemouth.
Moreover, a decade ago, the bodies of Ms Sullivan and DeSalvo were exhumed and tested.
Also in 2010, Simón Bolívar, Bobby Fischer and Nicolae Ceausescu were exhumed.
A total of 250 skeletons were exhumed, and 200 more graves were exposed.
The bodies of Mary Ann's most recent victims were exhumed and found to contain high levels of arsenic.
