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noun

excavation

the act of digging

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Six example sentences with excavation, each labelled with its topic.

  • Six summers of excavation at the hillfort turned up a granary, a well, and the postholes of a wooden gate.

    History

  • Excavation for the foundations took eleven weeks, and the crews hauled away enough clay to fill four hundred trucks.

    Architecture

  • The fossil bed is fragile, so excavation proceeds with dental picks and soft brushes rather than shovels.

    Science

  • Excavation of the old landfill uncovered newspapers from 1970 still readable after fifty years underground.

    Environment

  • Visitors watch the excavation from a walkway as students brush soil from a Roman mosaic below.

    Travel

  • The mining game rewards patient excavation, since the diamonds sit twelve layers below the surface.

    Gaming

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