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
• This would mean Claire would have to be exhumed and transferred to another one.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
• Her body was exhumed, and her DNA was eventually matched with her siblings.
  — Mark Gillispie, Fox News, 12 July 2018
• The family managed to have his body exhumed for an autopsy in 2009.
  — Eva Vergara, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• Photos of Noreen Rudd’s exhumed body in her wedding dress will be part of the prosecution’s evidence.
  — George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• After Johnson’s first burial, his family hired attorneys and a private pathologist to exhume the body.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 22 June 2018
• In 2005, Emmett’s body was exhumed by the FBI and an autopsy was performed.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• Only by exhuming it and addressing it can America address its perpetual crisis with race.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
• The officials are also considering exhuming the bodies to determine the presence of metal.
  — Darko Janjevic, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Assad Chaftari, once head of intelligence for a Christian militia, sees the benefit of exhuming the bodies.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The team exhumed the pipe, and opened it up, Hansen said.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2024
• This spring the team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known.
  — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The 4Runner drives like a bag of rocks pulled by a Clydesdale that was recently exhumed from the Pet Semetary.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2019
• Go to the cemetery and exhume the bodies and see which one looked too fresh — blood in the vital organs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• He was exhumed, and his ashes were spread at a beach in Malibu.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• However, once the bodies were exhumed the caskets were present in each of the three graves.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al.com, 28 June 2019
• Franco is to be exhumed and reburied next to his wife in one of Madrid’s cathedrals.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• At that point, Weeks said, the bodies were exhumed and buried across the street from Florian Hall in Dorchester.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• But as the bodies of victims are exhumed, awareness grows.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Police have exhumed most of the bodies from shallow graves.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Apr. 2023
• In total, the organization has found and exhumed the remains of 272 Marines and sailors from the island over the last decade.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2019
• The case was closed in 2007, two years after his body was exhumed to perform an autopsy.
  — Zak Koeske, Daily Southtown, 13 July 2018
• The remains were exhumed again in 2018 and sent to an agency lab in Hawaii for DNA and other analysis.
  — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
• In 2015, the Department of Defense announced plans to exhume the remains again.
  — Don Babwin, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
• The calls at home to exhume the skeletons in the monarchy’s closet are only getting louder.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Her body was exhumed in 2017, and DNA testing was done, officials said.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
• The ministry added that bad weather had forced a halt to efforts to exhume bodies at the remote 800-acre site in a forest to the north of Mombasa.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Walter and Wanda are willing to have graves opened and the remains exhumed to discover who was buried and when.
  — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
• After Dexter Wade's remains were exhumed, his gravesite in the pauper's field was smoothed over.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• After passing, Murphy's grave remained untouched and abandoned in a Lexington cemetery until his remains were found, exhumed and reburied with Man o’ War at his previous site in 1967.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024