Excavated example sentences

Related (8): dug, unearthed, mined, extracted, uncovered, burrowed, tunneled, stripped

"Excavated" Example Sentences

Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb dating back to the Bronze Age.
Workers excavated the foundation for the new skyscraper down 30 feet below the city street.
Remains of an old pioneer homestead were excavated from the site where the new development was planned.
The workers excavated deep into the hillside to access the mineral deposits below.
Although damaged by time and treasure hunters, scientists were able to recover many artifacts from the long-excavated pyramid.
The fossils were carefully excavated from the sedimentary rock by the paleontologists.
The new highway construction project required that workers excavated several hundred feet of bedrock.
The cavern was excavated deep inside the mountain by early settlers searching for shelter.
The excavated earth was piled up around the construction site.
After excavated, the woolly mammoth bones were studied for clues about the ancient environment.
Artifacts excavated from ruins of the ancient city fill museum display cases.
The construction crew excavated the basement down 15 feet below the foundation.
The cave system had long been excavated by flowing water creating twists and turns in the rock.
Workers excavated through three feet of soil and clay to reach the stone foundation.
A dinosaur vertebrae was carefully excavated from the fossil bed.
Crews excavated a giant pit to build the sports stadium's foundation.
Her team painstakingly excavated several burial mounds and found many valuable artifacts.
Archaeologists excavated layers of ash that filled the excavated remains of an ancient city destroyed by volcanic eruption.
The early settlers excavated a well and built a primitive water mill to grind their grain.
After the quarry was excavated, the rocky surface was littered with heavy machinery.
They excavated mud bricks and ceramic pots that dated back thousands of years.
The mining company had to have an excavated tunnel built to access the deep ore deposit.
The fireplace had long been excavated and covered over with new construction.
A 35 foot deep pit had to be excavated for the elevator shaft.
The erosion had excavated deep channels into the soft rock over millennia.
After the remains were excavated, they were carefully reconstructed in the university lab.
Sewage lines had been excavated under the old city streets decades earlier.
The Cretaceous period gastroliths were carefully excavated from the fossilized dinosaur remains.
The old well had been excavated by the early settlers and lined with limestone blocks.
The new reservoir required that millions of cubic yards of earth and rock be excavated.
The artifacts excavated from the early American colonial site had barely survived time and weather.
Erosion from the river had carved and excavated unique rock formations over thousands of years.
The crew excavated a pit for the foundation of the new shopping mall.
After the ground had been completely excavated, the workers began laying the pipeline.
The workers had to excavate through ten feet of packed earth and clay to reach the necessary depth.
The pit was excavated by heavy machinery and took several days to reach the desired depth.
The stone foundations of the old pioneer homestead were carefully excavated.
The early cave drawings were found deep within an excavated cavern system.
The miners excavated a large tunnel to access the iron ore deep within the mountain.
Archaeologists carefully excavated the ancient tomb looking for clues to the lost civilization.
Heavy equipment was used to excavate a pit for the new industrial plant.
The location of the fossils was excavated and the ground mapped to document their position.
The remains of the old pioneer cemetery were painstakingly excavated with hand tools.
The buried shipwreck was carefully excavated by a team of maritime archaeologists.
The landslide had excavated a large cavity in the side of the mountain.
The workers excavated through hard dirt and sediment to reach the underground pipe system.
Precious archaeological treasures were excavated from the long-buried ruins of the ancient city.
New tunnels had to be excavated to access additional coal seams below the existing mines.
The cave had been excavated long ago by Native American peoples seeking refuge.
Builders had to excavate a pit five stories deep to make room for the new high-rise basement.
Several artifacts dating back to the Roman era were excavated from the old villa foundations.
Years of running water had excavated deep grooves into the soft sandstone cliff face.
The workers excavated huge pits for the concrete footings of the bridge towers.
Climate change had caused erosion to cut and excavate many new canyons in the desert sands.
The massive pit had to be excavated and emptied of bedrock prior to laying the foundation.
The village foundations were carefully excavated and studied for clues to their ancient way of life.
Numerous prehistoric tools and weapons were excavated from ancient caves and rock shelters.
Crews worked for weeks excavating and preparing the immense construction site.
The heavy equipment slowly and laboriously excavated the huge pit for the massive skyscraper foundations.
The cavern had been excavated over eons by underground streams cutting through the limestone.