Example sentences for: excavations

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

  • Excavations began in 1930; part of the main building has been unearthed and certain parts have been rebuilt (using obviously new materials to differentiate these sections from the original ones).

  • In religion-soaked colonial New England, pieces of movable type show up frequently during excavations of early sites; they don't show up at all at sites of comparable age in less aggressively pious Virginia.)

  • Later excavations revealed an 11th-century bathing pool on the terrace in front of the cave, with fountains in the shape of seven nymphs representing India’s great rivers.

  • The chief attraction is in the basement, where excavations have uncovered the foundations, including sculptures, walls, a bathing pool, and cemeteries filled with the Romans and Visigoths who once inhabited the city.

  • Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.


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