The backhoe will excavate the ditches for the water pipes. From LearnThat.org.
The mining company wants to excavate the hillside. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That would be as if Muslims invaded Italy and tried to "excavate" the Sistine Chapel. From Wordnik.com. [Why "excavating" Al Aqsa is a bad idea: It's like "excavating" the Sistine Chapel] Reference
And then the Muslims started declaring that they needed to "excavate" under the Sistine Chapel. From Wordnik.com. [Why "excavating" Al Aqsa is a bad idea: It's like "excavating" the Sistine Chapel] Reference
Network Archaeology used to 'excavate' the past structure of networks. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
Applications for leave to excavate must be made to the. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
When the digging occurred, they would excavate a grave. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2009] Reference
He also was the first to excavate in Babylonia, where C. J. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Archaeologists are still deciding on just how to excavate it. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Other' Silk Road: China Peers Into Maritime Past] Reference
It took an average of 35 shifts to excavate one row of caissons. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
It is then a very easy matter to excavate the hole for planting. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
And having reached this pit, the sons of Sagara began to excavate it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It remained for us to excavate the chalk trenches deeper and erect wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
When exactly they excavate the boat itself, he says, doesn't matter much. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Other' Silk Road: China Peers Into Maritime Past] Reference
The remarkable disclosures at Troy encouraged Schliemann to excavate other. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The top was absolutely flat and of some depth, as it was so hard to excavate. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
"It's not like we had to excavate," says the 29-year-old advertising copywriter. From Wordnik.com. [Usair 427: Not So Thorough?] Reference
Any one attempting to excavate on another man's land is punished by imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Officials say the drilling machine will excavate at a rate of about 6 meters per day. From Wordnik.com. [In New Video, Chilean Miners Appear in Better Condition] Reference
From the bottom of these shafts they would excavate as far as they dared to the sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
This was the question I soliloquized, as I started to excavate myself from the mud-littered car!. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
The larvae may tunnel into the center of the kernel or excavate an irregular cavity in the side. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
Hall of Columns, and it was very difficult to excavate without destroying this part of the grotto. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference
Applications for leave to export or to excavate should be made to the Director-General of Service of. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
So people who are good at programming could excavate that text and reconstitute the entire document. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009] Reference
She even managed to excavate the sappy "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," uncovering the pain beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Days Are Here Again--Again] Reference
It was more like a "melon cutting" than a preparation to excavate to still lower depths their pocketbooks. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of 1906] Reference
More than a million more would be required to dam off the site and excavate the vessel under dry conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812] Reference
Schliemann told other probable whoppers: for instance, that he foresaw as a child he'd one day excavate Troy. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
It was excavated in 1980, but they reburied it because they lacked the funds to fully excavate and conserve the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812] Reference
It hopes to develop the site into a "living archeological park" where visitors can study and even help excavate pueblos. From Wordnik.com. [The Lessons Of The Tombs] Reference
The shafts of the mine still bear on their rocky walls the marks made by the pick of the workman who toiled to excavate them. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
They then excavate pupa cells in which to transform into adults, which emerge from the wood through exit holes in the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The steam machines invented by our countrymen to drive piles, load vessels, and excavate roads, are most ingenious and useful. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
After none of UNESCO's member countries volunteered to help excavate the ruins, armed guards were dispatched to protect the site. From Wordnik.com. [Treasures In The Tombs] Reference
They are subject to the depredations of certain animalcules, which excavate the tubers so that they soon become riddled with worms. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Referring to the cost of cofferdam work, we see that, in order to excavate the 58 cu.yds. inside the cofferdam, it was necessary to spend. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
It has been already ascertained that each of the two machines, at the opposite ends of the tunnel, will excavate to the extent of 22 feet. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
It was possible to excavate in full rock cover about 250 ft. of the tunnels eastward from the Weehawken Shaft and 225 ft. westward from the. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151] Reference
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