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Example sentences for "unearthed"

Lexicographically close words:
undying; undyr; une; unearned; unearth; unearthing; unearthly; unease; uneasie; uneasily
  1. Kenny filled a battered tin-cup with something he had to sniff for purposes of identity, unearthed a number of brushes and defiantly polished a palette with a wad of cheesecloth.

  2. White and startled, Kenny unearthed the chafing dish and made himself some coffee.

  3. This beautiful little animal is abundant over all the stony plains throughout the country, burrowing deeply, and when unearthed bounding away with most surprising agility after the manner of the kangaroo-rat.

  4. I once came across the body of a child in the vicinity of a jungle village which had been unearthed by one.

  5. Instantly a sharp little cry rang through the room, and she withdrew her hand as swiftly as though she had unearthed a nest of rattlers.

  6. After that, from the mysterious depths of that same purse, she unearthed a time-table and studied it earnestly.

  7. Sally unearthed an old china cup from some hidden recess of her own, and Doris drank the most delicious water she had ever tasted.

  8. On a lecyth that was unearthed in a grave at Cumae, there is a curse of blindness invoked on any one who might venture to steal it[105].

  9. Another specimen of great interest is the coffin of a child, unearthed at Athens by Stackelberg, in the beginning of the present century.

  10. The most insidious scheme unearthed by the government was that which had to do with the attempt of Germany to secure the alliance of Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States.

  11. This tank was unearthed about the year 1875 by some persons who were ratting, and the writer saw it.

  12. Much interest was excited by an ancient canoe which was unearthed near Brigg, in North Lincolnshire, in the year 1886, while some excavators were working on the east side of the river Ancholme.

  13. Edouard Lartet and Mr. Henry Christy, in exploring the caves of Dordogne, unearthed a bit of evidence against which no such objection could be urged.

  14. Of these one of the largest and most complete is that which was unearthed in the bed of a drained lake near Newburg, New York, in 1845.

  15. The British Museum contains a model of a kiln unearthed at Worcester about forty years ago, on the site of the modern porcelain works.

  16. He tells us that in 1779 potteries were unearthed at Cincelli or Centum Cellae, which contained, besides various implements, part of a potter’s wheel, resembling those in vogue at the present day.

  17. Beside the parsonage is a sixpenny show of pavements, and other remains of a Roman villa unearthed about half a century ago, but since thrown into the shade by the larger one discovered at Brading.

  18. The clearest marks left by Rome are the remains of villas unearthed at different points, at least one of which indicates a tenant of luxurious habits and tastes.

  19. These remains were unearthed only in living memory, so that writers of a century ago ignore such traces of Roman occupation.

  20. Has one man sole claim to the treasure which others have dug up and unearthed from the depths of the earth with unspeakable toil and labor, simply because he removed the last shovelful of earth?

  21. He opened a book, laid it down again however, filled his pipe, which he had unearthed from the bottom of his trunk, with secret trembling, but it soon went out again as if it too knew that no smoking was allowed in that house.

  22. During those three days Margaret's beautiful world and life seemed to have crumbled into dust, just as she had seen the unearthed objects in Egyptian tombs crumble into atoms when the first breath of air from the desert reached them.

  23. One day that pure soft flesh, which held the tints of a field daisy, would be more revolting to look at if it were unearthed than the skin of the three-thousand-year-old queen.

  24. At his age it was scarcely healthy for a sport-loving, normal Englishman to spend his days and nights all alone, in the silent valley in the hills, his only companions the mummies of Pharaohs and the bones unearthed from subterranean tombs.

  25. Egyptologists have unearthed the private lives of Egypt's kings and queens.

  26. The police, as a matter of fact, had unearthed only a few of the conspirators.

  27. Many small chisels have been unearthed at Jamestown, and one may wonder whether any were made during the hard autumn of 1607, when the state of the new colony was at such a low ebb.

  28. Although made for everyday use, many of the pieces unearthed at the Jamestown kiln site are symmetrical in form and not entirely lacking in beauty.

  29. Boatbuilding Tools Unearthed at Jamestown All tools in the picture were hand wrought during the seventeenth century.

  30. Overall View Of Brick Kiln Unearthed at Jamestown In addition to bricks, flat roofing tiles were found in this kiln--placed there for firing with the bricks.

  31. The Box Maker And Turner Many tools similar to those in the 1685 engraving have been unearthed at Jamestown.

  32. In 1955 archeologists unearthed a circular-shaped pit which contained charcoal, burned oyster shell, iron ore, pieces of smelted iron, and slag.

  33. Artifacts Unearthed Relating To Brewing And Distilling Shown are lead and copper pipes, kettle fragments, a brass spigot, and scrap metal.

  34. Two years later, this indefatigable friend spent some weeks at Simancas, where he unearthed many an interesting trouvaille.

  35. Some pieces of old armour, unearthed among the rubbish of the Athenaeum, enabled the boys to mimic in their play the combats of Amadis and the knights with whom he fought.

  36. I now unearthed my flask containing the Ex.

  37. In another district still I unearthed as sweet a little story as any of the annals of jobbery can, I imagine, furnish.

  38. In 1812 a conspiracy was unearthed to separate New England from the republic and make it an English colony.

  39. But even so, the departures from standard usage that were unearthed were numerous and striking, and their tendency to accumulate in definite groups showed plainly the working of general laws.

  40. Krapp has unearthed many similar examples from the Restoration dramatists.

  41. One of the unofficial detectives has unearthed a clue," he whispered to me a few moments later when he returned.

  42. We headed for Leipzig at once, and there Carl unearthed the Pension Schröter on Sophien Platz.

  43. Limping meant that I was to look in every pocket until I unearthed a bag of peanut candy.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unearthed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.