exhume - use in sentences

Object

  • remain: There are many applications per year to exhume human remains for varying reasons.
  • grave: Scandinavian forensic experts, for example, are helping local communities in Iraq exhume mass graves.
  • corps: All too often, we have allowed them to exhume the corpses of that tiny handful of people who have died using drugs.
  • corpse: She supports her husband, even going to exhume a corpse he believes is a vampire.

Modifying Another Word

  • recently: Recently exhumed after four years of burial it sounds as great as ever.
  • not: The skeletons of the other two victims, buried in the cave, were not exhumed.
  • even: I heard today that they've even exhumed the body of Pope John!
  • then: The body is then exhumed in a family ceremony with a priest.

Object

  • body: Faulkner uses Owen's iconic poetry to flesh out the bones of three bodies exhumed from the earth of the erstwhile trenches.
  • fault: Previous work on exhumed faults has tended to focus on the fault morphology.

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