Example sentences for: unearths

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

  • Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

  • Incidentally, Culeman-Beckman's paper unearths a nifty Felt-related snippet from the White House tapes that Chatterbox didn't know about.


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