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Example sentences for: excavating

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The barrel-vaulted chambers were discovered while excavating for a nearby housing project.
After receiving a tip from a former Mexican police officer, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents began excavating the sites near Ciudad Juarez, just south of El Paso, Texas.
The frescoes found while excavating the site are particularly fine and offer a glimpse into a world lost through a devastating earthquake around 1500 b.c.
Medieval Moat: A 12th-century fortress’ foundations and drawbridge support uncovered while excavating new entrance halls.
Highly active in excavating and restoring the temples and palaces, Curzon also did more than any of his predecessors, adding 9,000 km (5,500 miles) of new railway lines, working to modernize farming with an agricultural research institute, and building an irrigation system that would become a model for Asia and Africa.