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Example sentences for "unearth"

Lexicographically close words:
undyed; undying; undyr; une; unearned; unearthed; unearthing; unearthly; unease; uneasie
  1. Hugh would be almost certain to unearth some clue, for he most always did accomplish whatever he set out to perform.

  2. More than half an hour had passed since parting from his chums, and Bud could truly say that he had worked faithfully to unearth a few crumbs of comfort for Blake.

  3. Were we to follow up this history we could unearth the full life history of this patient, including the genesis of his early attack of aphonia.

  4. He would thus, as I have shown, be led to unearth a sexual motive--which might be a mare's nest.

  5. No; I'm about to start out to unearth some items," replied Louise, wearily.

  6. Even that romping girl has power to unearth the mystic presence.

  7. She also encouraged him to unearth his deserted novel and read her the opening chapters.

  8. Whatever time might unearth about his father and mother, she would not be altered by it; and if anything obliging him to leave the country did transpire, she would marry him and go with him all the same as if nothing had come to light.

  9. It was not necessary or decent for the writer of that article to unearth a long-buried scandal.

  10. If I can unearth a pack of witches, I shall gain much credit from my honourable good lords the judges of assize in these northern parts, besides pleasing the King himself, who is sure to hear of it, and reward my praiseworthy zeal.

  11. Not a man in the county could ride harder, hunt deer, unkennel fox, unearth badger, or spear otter, better than he.

  12. It takes a very moderate amount of erudition to unearth a charlatan like the supposed father of the infinitesimal dosing system.

  13. Wherefore we are to unearth the stuff and give him a share of the plunder according to its value.

  14. Haynes, unable to continue the exploration of the temple-mound without expert advice, undertook to unearth a sufficient quantity of tablets to meet Peters' demand for inscribed material.

  15. Smith found the Deluge tablets among the scores of fragments sent to the British Museum by Layard and Loftus, and this and other discoveries whetted his desire to go to Mesopotamia and unearth its treasures with his own hands.

  16. The serious work of excavation was not without its humorous side, for if they chanced to unearth a carven monster with the body of a bull and the head of a bearded man, the native labourers threw down their tools and ran.

  17. Their first act was to unearth the cask of brandy and take a good draught apiece, feeling that they both needed and deserved it after what they had gone through that morning.

  18. Then, poor fellow, we must unearth his body and lay it in the hut, covering him up.

  19. Documents, memoranda, and telegrams were produced by men who had seemed their most trusted servants, but had been in reality members of the Brotherhood told off to unearth their schemes.

  20. It is well known that all the Governments of Europe are spending money like water to unearth this mystery of the Terror.

  21. A few weeks later, the buried one awakes, transfigured but weak, having naught wherewith to unearth herself but the throbbing hernia of her open forehead.

  22. Once childhood's games were past, it would never have done to rear the Grasshopper and unearth the Dung beetle from his natural surroundings.

  23. There are dozens of things lying buried in your old library, but you won't take the trouble to unearth them.

  24. And the best of it is that there are dozens of other plays equally enjoyable hidden away in the treasure-house of old English plays, waiting for you to unearth and rediscover them.

  25. But we should never have thought of trying to unearth this treasure, had it not been for information of a much more recent date that has come to us.

  26. By research and study I would unearth history yet unwritten, and record unsung triumphs of this great inventor and artiste.

  27. The following morning Reginald Davis, resolved to unearth the mystery of 10 Cathcart Square, stood in the private room of Mr Bryant of Scotland Yard.

  28. If you try and unearth that mystery at Cathcart Square, I might be dragged in, and it might be very awkward for me.

  29. He scraped the point of a boot on the cobble-stones for awhile, gazing downwards almost as if he expected to unearth something; suddenly he raised his eyes and gave me a franker look than I had so far had from him.

  30. If Mr. Wing can unearth Mr. Chuh Fen and that mysterious gentleman can give me a tip, I'll respect his privacy!

  31. Now to locate the cave and unearth that treasure!

  32. No," said I, with some little show of triumph showing through my disdain, "but I can show you where to unearth one.

  33. We have not been able as yet to unearth any bodies.

  34. At this period, a little before July, if my spade unearth the cells of any one of my three Halicti, the result is always females, nothing but females, with exceedingly rare exceptions.

  35. I unearth a sufficient number of couples to prove to me that the sexes come together underground.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unearth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ascertain; detect; determine; disclose; discover; disentangle; draw; dredge; eradicate; evolve; excavate; excise; expose; extract; extricate; find; finger; gouge; hear; light; locate; mine; pluck; pull; quarry; rake; remove; reveal; root; trace; turn; uncover; unearth; unravel; uproot; withdraw; wrest