How to Use exhume in a Sentence

exhume

verb
  • The ruling could pave the way for hundreds more to be exhumed.
    — Raphael Minder, New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • His body was exhumed about 12 years after his death.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Saint Nicholas‘ body was then exhumed and reburied in the church.
    — Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But for Haiti, the White House will not be exhumed soon enough.
    — Brian Josephs, The Root, 23 May 2017
  • Mollie’s body was later exhumed and the true cause of her death revealed.
    — Sherri Becker, Philly.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The site where a dinosaur’s bones are exhumed isn’t the spot that animal lived, but where it was buried.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 15 May 2017
  • This spring the team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • And the theme of regret almost leads to these bog bodies being exhumed.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
  • This would mean Claire would have to be exhumed and transferred to another one.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • However, once the bodies were exhumed the caskets were present in each of the three graves.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al.com, 28 June 2019
  • In the presence of this wraith, the villagers begin to exhume their own guilty secrets.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Franco is to be exhumed and reburied next to his wife in one of Madrid’s cathedrals.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Several months later, a clan of grave robbers exhumed the film star’s corpse from his grave.
    — Paula Mejia, Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2015
  • Graves lie empty, with large rectangular holes where the dead have been exhumed.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The body of Sophie Narme is being exhumed.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • As a result of his efforts, the killer’s body was exhumed in 1981.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Zuckerman also hopes to exhume more of the remains to learn about the lives of the patients.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
  • The scientist noted in his journal at the time that the skulls were not exhumed and had been freely given.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • After he was hanged, Guiteau was buried in the jail yard, but a few days later, his body was exhumed.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • In order to find out, authorities would have to exhume him for testing.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 26 Nov. 2025
  • As a result, Telfair’s body was exhumed and an autopsy showed he was murdered — shot in the head.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • His body was later exhumed, and a second autopsy was performed.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The medical examiner exhumed the body from a shallow grave and from the trash bags.
    — Meagan Flynn, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The calls at home to exhume the skeletons in the monarchy’s closet are only getting louder.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The bodies were exhumed from mass graves linked to a religious leader who starved his followers to death.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Tales that rely on cheap tricks can be fun, but the ones that exhume their horrors from within powerful ideas endure.
    — Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The team likewise found no evidence that the body had ever been buried and exhumed, Nerlich added.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • But what was served up were stale, pale sketches that seemed to have been exhumed from some old codger’s book of gags from 19 bloody 50!
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026

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