have been excavating
- present perfect progressive of excavate.
Example Sentences
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Researchers have been excavating the Belgian battlefield site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last stand, the infamous Battle of Waterloo, since 2012.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 4, 2024
Archaeologists have been excavating a site they call the birthplace of Scotland's modern tartan industry.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
Experts from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret College, Israel and Nyack College in New York, have been excavating the site of el-Araj on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2019
On and off for three years, Mr. Luccketti and colleagues with the First Colony Foundation have been excavating parts of the hillside, hoping to find traces of the colonists.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2015
Similar tiles were dug up at Wroxeter, and I have found slates of the same shape in the Roman villa I have been excavating for Mr. Chas.
From The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath by Davis, Charles E.
