Example sentences for: unearthed

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

  • The bust had been buried for more than 3,000 years before it was unearthed by German and French archaeologists in 1912.

  • This 19th-century curiosity, like a similar chapel in the town of Évora farther north, is constructed of the skulls and bones of monks, unearthed from the friars’ cemetery.

  • Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid’s sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.

  • Though the extensive site is still being excavated, remnants of fountains, thermal pools, a sophisticated heating system, a large villa, and spectacular colorful mosaics — some of the finest under roofing at the Casa das Fontes — have been unearthed.

  • Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).


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