exhumes
- present tense form of exhume (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“In 1945 our parents went away and left us,” the British narrator begins, and decades later, he exhumes their secrets from the mire of espionage and war.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018
It also exhumes journalism’s flush, predigital heyday — when newspapers felled presidents and Mr. Hersh, as a newbie at The Times, was put up at the Hôtel de Crillon while on assignment in Paris.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2018
As the low-affect Elliot gradually exhumes his past, says Malek, “You’re forced as an audience member to navigate inside his head, see everything he’s grappled with that becomes that much more telling.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2016
In this captivating double portrait, Cumming exhumes the little that is known of the Spanish artist and courtier through the peculiar tale of one of his most passionate devotees.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 4, 2016
Exhumā′tion, act of exhuming: disinterment; Exhum′er, one who exhumes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
