Synonyms

1. digging
2. dig

Sentence Examples

1. Orin was responsible for managing the excavation and cavern construction projects, and was given a little leeway whenever a new vein of emerald, or earth-stones, was found.
2. The university has just finished the excavation of what was probably a Norman chantry.
3. At the end of fifteen months the level was finished, and the excavation completed beneath the gallery, and the two workmen could distinctly hear the measured tread of the sentinel as he paced to and fro over their heads.
4. In this passage he proposed to drive a level as they do in mines this level would bring the two prisoners immediately beneath the gallery where the sentry kept watch once there, a large excavation would be made, and one of the flag-stones with which the gallery was paved be so completely loosened that at the desired moment it would give way beneath the feet of the soldier, who, stunned by his fall, would be immediately bound and gagged by Dantès before he had power to offer any resistance.
5. There had been considerable progress on the excavation since Jake had left the site under stranger circumstances with the same policeman.
6. That was before The Breaking, and all sign of habitation by the fox-faced creatures had been erased by centuries of excavation and expansion by the Dwarves.
7. She suggested using a JCB digger to remove four feet of topsoil over a contained area, which would expedite the excavation without compromising the site.
8. My quick trip turned into a grimy excavation through boxes of charred paper, and I spent the first day choking from fumes and ruining my white dress shirt.
9. The cave was sealed after the excavation with a large boulder.
10. While Stormaway directed the woodfolk to the excavation site, Waterstone and Thunder Storm sat the prince down and set about tidying up his face.