How to Use exhume in a Sentence

exhume

verb
Definition of exhumenext
Synonyms for exhumenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After Dexter Wade's remains were exhumed, his gravesite in the pauper's field was smoothed over.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In April 2013, Mr. Neruda’s body was exhumed under orders from a judge.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And though the operation to exhume the gems was exhausted by the end of that century, the project yielded some of the finest sapphires on earth.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In 1961, the bodies were exhumed and sent to mainland Europe for reburial.
    — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Workers in protective gear exhume the bodies of civilians found buried in a mass grave behind a church on April 13.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Their purpose was to exhume the Union soldiers' bodies held there during the war to honor and give them a proper burial.
    — Byellen McGirt, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Lancaster's body was exhumed as preparation for the construction of a St. Joseph Shrine, the nuns wrote in a statement.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • Authorities have exhumed most of the bodies from the forest in southeast Kenya since April.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • However, due to insurance reasons, his body was exhumed a few days later and found to still be alive.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • But Moynihan doesn’t pretend to exhume the concourse or compete with Grand Central.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Last year, the Texas Historical Commission gave the Alamo permission to exhume at least four burial sites in the church.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Because there was no evidence of foul play, the family would need a court order to exhume the remains and would have to pay that cost and any testing, the coroner said.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The body was exhumed in 2010 as part of an effort by the police department to identify victims known only as Jane or John Doe.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The site was exhumed, but no human remains were located, the affidavit said.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 July 2023
  • Lawyers for the OnlyFans model accused of murdering her boyfriend in Miami won’t seek to exhume the slain man’s body.
    — David Ovalle, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Now, more than 56 years later, a tip to investigators led them to exhume Pusser’s body, the TBI announced.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to Josh Donaldson for giving me an excuse to exhume the greatest quote in the history of Twins rivalries.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • To confirm Elliott was the suspect in the cold case killings, though, police said detectives had to exhume Elliott’s body, which was buried in a Nevada cemetery.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The remains of three men were exhumed from an unmarked grave near Bucha after a man who buried them returned to inform authorities about it.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The group urged authorities to work with the United Nations to exhume and return bodies to the victims' families.
    — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 8 July 2020
  • In 2010, as part of an effort to identify unknown victims, police exhumed Atherton's body to try to get a DNA sample.
    — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 31 May 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'exhume.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: