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    1. Then we began to excavate our dug out as Elijah said


    2. In 2013 Lottery funding was earmarked to excavate, restore and feature the castle


    3. “We survey this chamber in preparation for Kleti tunneling teams, who will excavate a large corridor between here and the inside of the crater, and a smaller corridor to the lobby of the resort


    4. harder to excavate as I dug about a foot deep, and the task


    5. the point required, and then excavate a funnel downwards at that point


    6. But to excavate such a funnel, or to step the


    7. excavate the site if needs be


    8. applications to excavate the chambers and tunnels under


    9. excavate both of those sites at a later date, everything here


    10. It‘s another ―E‖, but this time it stands for excavate

    11. It recommends the taking on of a practice in order to excavate the


    12. need to send a team to excavate the ruins under New NewYork so that we can prevent


    13. Wolfi had completed the blasting to excavate earth for the stone bridge abutments at Hartish Creek and the boys had accomplished the creosote soaking of a large number of logs that would be used in the construction of the bridge’s structure


    14. - Excavate underground and take out its treasures as Allah ordered


    15. Those are the qualities that we want to excavate from within ourselves, by which we build bridges to others


    16. With the soft, moist qualities of meekness and gentleness, we can excavate the qualities of peace, love, faith, and perseverance


    17. began to excavate where the killer sifted with his


    18. necessary and they would excavate the whole damn


    19. They found Jonquil’ s headstone and began to excavate


    20. Run, yes! Run! What? Grab a shovel, dig, excavate, save a chunk of this all-too-crumbling sand? Find a repairman, race him back here with plaster of Paris to cast a mold of some small fragile part of these? No, no

    21. Tegetmeier, I separated two combs, and put between them a long, thick, rectangular strip of wax: the bees instantly began to excavate minute circular pits in it; and as they deepened these little pits, they made them wider and wider until they were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell


    22. It was most interesting to observe that, wherever several bees had begun to excavate these basins near together, they had begun their work at such a distance from each other that by the time the basins had acquired the above stated width (i


    23. As soon as this occurred, the bees ceased to excavate, and began to build up flat walls of wax on the lines of intersection between the basins, so that each hexagonal prism was built upon the scalloped edge of a smooth basin, instead of on the straight edges of a three-sided pyramid as in the case of ordinary cells


    24. The bees instantly began on both sides to excavate little basins near to each other, in the same way as before; but the ridge of wax was so thin, that the bottoms of the basins, if they had been excavated to the same depth as in the former experiment, would have broken into each other from the opposite sides


    25. Thus, as I believe, the most wonderful of all known instincts, that of the hive-bee, can be explained by natural selection having taken advantage of numerous, successive, slight modifications of simpler instincts; natural selection having, by slow degrees, more and more perfectly led the bees to sweep equal spheres at a given distance from each other in a double layer, and to build up and excavate the wax along the planes of intersection


    26. It reads remarkably well, with just the spice of wholesome plaint that one loves to excavate


    27. I at first encountered much repugnance on the part of the inhabitants to excavate the tombs; finally, with some money and very long explanations, I brought them to terms and, thanks to my tomb-hunters, I found and excavated the necropoli of Horil, Beri, Djon, Tülü, Mistaïl, Hiveri, etc


    28. "At Moukri, thanks to the kindness of a Kurd chief, I was enabled to excavate a tomb which, although it held no objects of value, still contained some interesting relics


    1. Many of the legends found in the literature of other civilizations can be excavated in the ruins here


    2. There was a little bit of water in an excavated pool, enough to grow enough vine to cover the lodge and fill the kegs within


    3. had run like that as one could have had all the fruits The remains were excavated by archaeologists led for himself, they said: “UBUNTU, how can one of us be by William Kelso of Preservation Virginia, a private happy if all the other ones are sad”?


    4. It reminded her of the palace of Knossos excavated by Evans, but was somewhat larger than Reston as she remembered it from her youth, and the colors were somewhat more tasteful than the pictures she remembered


    5. He and George excavated a deep cellar and after sealing it against leaks then further insulating bins within it to receive the next summer's supply, decided they would also reuse the initial method as well, though with fewer buoys


    6. Harry followed behind them setting and plumbing the poles in their excavated holes


    7. As for their cousins the Rock Dwarves, they have long since excavated this world’s suitable resources


    8. She was in one of two enormous, fish farming chambers excavated in the ice 20 metres under the surface of Europa, another of Jupiter’s moons


    9. Throughout the day, a trench had been excavated, behind the entrance to the underworld


    10. Each animal joyfully tossed the fuel into the trenches, so expertly excavated

    11. Six battle-hardened Ferrets, streamed out from small holes excavated near the log


    12. 4 million years old that was excavated in Ethiopia


    13. the laboratories at Shinra Headquarters using excavated Mako


    14. themselves made their way to the small cave Mick had excavated


    15. Rooms will be excavated in the sides, and the area surrounding the lake will be leveled and landscaped


    16. From the number of workers who had been going to and from the corridors beyond those doorways, it was obvious that other large rooms had been excavated adjoining this one


    17. The hole it had been excavated from gaped in the slope below it


    18. Here are the hotel facilities and apartments for staff members and residents, all excavated beneath the surface of the outside of the volcano, all equipped with hidden doors and windows to the outside to maintain the existing natural look of the mountain


    19. They first excavated these tunnels from the lower floors of the manufacturing levels inside the mountain, to the surface of the stone six meters below the sea, and they built this


    20. He also confirmed that there are underground Alliance bases on our moon, in natural caverns that have been further excavated to accommodate them

    21. An excavated trench revealed a short stone path leading to the entrance of a square room having walls I estimated to be about twelve feet in length


    22. They first excavated these tunnels from the lower floors of the manufacturing levels inside the mountain, to the surface of the stone twenty feet below the sea, and they built this


    23. “We’ve only been here two days but have part of a domicile excavated,” I said


    24. We stopped at the edge of the excavated area where Matt and Tim were on their knees, trowels and brushes in hand


    25. I looked up where he was pointing and said, “Then we need to get it excavated so it doesn’t get covered up again


    26. Unfortunately, some of the additions were excavated with less care than others,’ she sent a baleful stare to Ishbel before continuing, ‘and we are now reaping the problems


    27. The workers did not dig so much as they excavated


    28. under the Temple of David when the original Knights Templars excavated there


    29. The gardens in the centre of the block had been excavated and thousands of tons of soil and clay had been removed and dumped on land to the south of the city in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, land owned by the Aryans and filled by trucks also owned by them


    30. A huge hole had been excavated, going down about seven metres or

    31. Sunk up to his neck in a morass of dead brandies and rotting flowers, he flung the dirt of the garden all about after having finished with the courtyard and the backyard, and he excavated so deeply under the foundations of the east wing of the house that one night they woke up in terror at what seemed to be an earthquake, as much because of the trembling as the fearful underground creaking


    32. this artefact over the past year, It was originally excavated


    33. the advance team around the excavated city


    34. On completion of the work, it had been back filled with a mixture of excavated material


    35. The drill rig was cleared away, and the excavated rock chippings were bulldozed into the hole


    36. The grader lumbered across the paddock with its high beam creating a menacing picture ahead of it until eventually it highlighted the gaping crater flanked by the pile of carcases one side and the mound of excavated earth the other


    37. When the tunnels were discovered the North Koreans claimed they were coal mines, although they were excavated through igneous rock that the Communists painted black


    38. Half of it had been excavated in strip mining


    39. They were part of a huge funerary complex south of Cairo, excavated in nineteen-


    40. It was excavated in 1895 and from 1896 until 1900 everyone who participated in the excavation died

    41. Foundations (for walls) and plinths (concrete supports for machines) could be excavated concurrently, but need to be cast as separate items


    42. known as the "Caucasian mummies" They were excavated


    43. "It has been excavated, studied, cataloged and everything else you can


    44. excavated most of the area enclosed by the canvas


    45. fragments found at the excavated dumpsites of the


    46. excavated the ruins of Solomon’s Temple


    47. nineteenth century AD archeologists who excavated the


    48. Excavated by the Oriental Institute, 1955-56 OIM A30553


    49. It was excavated in the twentieth


    50. With much difficulty and some danger she was dug out, for Jo was so overcome with laughter while she excavated that her knife went too far, cut the poor foot, and left a lasting memorial of one artistic attempt, at least




































    1. Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the African tribe


    2. The ruins of the city were discovered about a hundred years ago, and archaeologists have been excavating ever since


    3. In excavating this city, a mosaic wall was found, dating to sometime before 3,000 BC


    4. Only by excavating buried facts and adjusting glorified stories might history teach


    5. Like every construction there, the home had been made by excavating rooms in the ice by removing blocks of it, and the blocks were then used to build more rooms above on the surface, then magically melted together and strengthened


    6. We’ll build a resort on the outer slopes of the volcano, above the treeline only, again by excavating into the stone


    7. “Adam said he was excavating a home for me there


    8. I imagined his ancestor standing on this hilltop we were now excavating and looking at the area, deciding how to drain it


    9. We’d located the site we called the smithy, a building with large fire pits, and started excavating it as soon as it was mapped


    10. “But we just found this village! We’ll need to be here for a few years, excavating this hill fort

    11. Archeologists excavating what was once the kingdom of Calquax; which is now a state of Barsoon, found that the people had irrigation systems just a little behind what is used today, which seemed to have been built around 7180 B


    12. excavating to find out what is causing the earthquakes


    13. A year ago, when Gregor first saw the warehouse, he came up with the idea of excavating a chamber inside it, with a short tunnel to the sea


    14. The ditch had been formed when excavating soil to create the road


    15. The side panels of the casket, caked with soil had been gouged in places by the excavating tools and the smell of damp earth merged with the subliminal odours that accompany death


    16. As he pulled into the site, his excavating subcontractor was talking to two


    17. Excavating for the foundation and crawl space


    18. and he was earnestly working at excavating a pond for his plastic


    19. pain, she returned to excavating with a zeal she


    20. So I think that excavating those sands would bring to light a great many weapons and tools of Egyptian origin

    21. They’re involved in excavating metals — both precious and base metals, ferrous and nonferrous — as well as transforming these metals into finished products and subsequently distributing the end products to consumers


    22. ‘The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller’s-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit


    23. When I looked again, the busy handling-machine had already put together several of the pieces of apparatus it had taken out of the cylinder into a shape having an unmistakable likeness to its own; and down on the left a busy little digging mechanism had come into view, emitting jets of green vapour and working its way round the pit, excavating and embanking in a methodical and discriminating manner


    24. The consequence is, that upon breaking into the hold, and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the Greenland dock, a savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising from excavating an old city grave-yard, for the foundations of a Lying-in-Hospital


    25. Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries; and bones disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time


    26. This interstice was filled with wood, by plugging the larger cylinder with this material, and excavating the plug till it would permit the smaller brass cylinder to be driven in


    27. The exact extent and character of the low ground in these two directions can only be determined by excavating the ancient level, which, as it appears to me, has not been reached by the deep new railroad cutting running across this section north of the so-called Theseum


    28. Brugsch has been excavating during the past spring in the Fayoum


    29. Count d'Hulst has been excavating at Behbet, near Mansourah, on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund


    30. Taylor has been excavating here for the Egypt exploration fund, in continuation of the previous year's work

    31. Petrie communicates the following report to the Academy: "During the last four months I have been excavating at this place, the capital of Khuenaten


    32. Flinders Petrie is excavating the ruins of the old city of Khuenaten, while M


    33. *—, skeleton found in excavating the Morris Canal, xiv, 188


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    Synonyms for "excavate"

    dig excavate hollow dig up turn up unearth extract quarry pan drill burrow

    "excavate" definitions

    recover through digging


    find by digging in the ground


    form by hollowing


    remove the inner part or the core of