Example Sentences

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Perpetua is excavating a mine in Idaho that, once operational, will be the only domestic reserve of the critical mineral antimony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Now I realize what I've been doing for more than 50 years is excavating old ideas and finding new ways to express them.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

Among his more ambitious goals is excavating 2.7 miles of tunnel for a vacuum tube that can transport 16 people in a pod from downtown Los Angeles to the LAX airport in eight minutes.

From Slate • May 18, 2018

“It seems incredible,” said Engin Akyurek, a Byzantine archaeologist with Istanbul University who is excavating the site.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2013

Nobody is excavating there—nobody seems to care for it, and never was such a mine of relics under the sun.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow