Example sentences for: excavations

How can you use “excavations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recent excavations and radiocarbon dating put the taula’s date at about 900 b.c.

  • The gist of the coverage was that Saramago, a Portuguese novelist known for his playful excavations of Iberian history, is the real thing , an inheritor of the majestic European literary tradition and the last best hope for the serious novel.

  • The west wing — as at Knossós — was chiefly made up of shrines and storerooms and many objects of ritual were found during excavations here.

  • Aside from some low-level excavations showing the elaborate water-piping system and surviving mosaics and ceramics, there is also a small museum displaying everything from fishhooks to lamps, appealing to any student of archaeology.

  • Archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of habitation here as long ago as 900 b.c.


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