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• The dig team unearthed a kylix at the site in Bergama.From the entry kylix
• The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry aristocrat
• In a series of tweets unearthed by Labour opponents, she labelled some climate scientists as "doom-mongers".2022 September 21, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Truss and Trevelyan lead a team new to the railways”, in RAIL, number 966, page 10. From the entry doom-monger
• Livestreamed or uploaded, or suppressed then suspiciously unearthed as found footage.2020 June 3, Wesley Morris, “The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.”, in New York Times. From the entry roil
• A month before, a mass grave of dinosaur bones was unearthed in Frick.2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry plateosaurus
• The beacon was a Prothean artifact unearthed on the Alliance colony of Eden Prime.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Beacon Codex entry. From the entry quantum leap
• The gold stick unearthed in Sanxingdui Site and the gold crown band unearthed in Jinsha Site.2007, Yinke Deng, “Sanxingdui, a Civilization Independent from the Central Plains”, in Avery Martha, Pan Yue, transl., History of China…. From the entry Jinsha
• A facile, pop-psych explanation would unearth the roots of clownophobia in childhood traumas.1997, Ashley Crawford, Ray Edgar, editors, Transit Lounge: An Interface Book from 21.C, North Ryde, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry clownophobia
• Similar examples in the archaeological literature are pieces unearthed at Chientsaoping, Taiyuan, Shansi, and Tafuhsiang, Hsingping-hsien, Shensi.[1995, 鄧淑蘋, 藍田山房藏玉百選, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270, column 2. From the entry Jiancaoping
• In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed.[1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and…. From the entry counting rod
• The stone implements unearthed along with Hetao Man are very small in size.1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127. From the entry Lingwu
• Let them be unearthed, and the Temple of the British Secret Tradition be re-edificated.1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 191. From the entry reedificate
• “Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart. From the entry demijohn
• Less problematic would be the case in which the same difficult endeavor unearthed not 14 but only 2 cases of nondeforestation.2019, Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone, David Major, Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate. From the entry nondeforestation
• Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry taffeta
• Stalwart TJLCers were the only ones clever enough to have unearthed the plot and follow the trail of the imaginary breadcrumbs.2017, Christopher Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 171. From the entry TJLCer
• Brenda lifted the top off a shoebox and dug beneath the tissue paper, unearthing a two-toned, turquoise-and-cream, high-heeled pump.2014, Bridgett M. Davis, Into the Go-Slow, New York, N.Y.: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, →ISBN. From the entry cleavage
• Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry afrofuturist
• Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's. From the entry denier
• The large jade slotted rings such as those unearthed at Taidong in Taiwan date from the fifth or fourth millennium B.C.1999 December 3, Souren Melikian, “Will the Past Crush the Future?: OUT OF ASIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Taidong
• They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.1988, Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150. From the entry Changge
• Thousands of these decorated and inscribed stones have been unearthed and are to-day in our possession; glyptologists can and have read them.2019, Maxwell Sommerville, Engraved Gems. From the entry glyptologist
• We’ll tell you that, rather than answering the questions directly, your children will profit more if you can unearth or pinpoint their underlying fears.2003 September, Willow Bay, “Conversational Comfort Zone”, in Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child’s Questions…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
• Just a few months after my visit he unearthed three new giant-predator specimens, at 90 million years old likely tormentors of the megasauropod Argentinosaurus.1997 December, James Shreeve, “Uncovering Patagonia's Lost World”, in National geographic, volume 192, number 6, National Geographic…. From the entry megasauropod
• These performances, which include plenty of great one-liners and physical gags but also unearth subtler shades of frustration and self-doubt, are some of my favorites of hers.2026 January 30, Judy Berman, “Catherine O’Hara Portrayed the Vain and Delusional With a Radical Lack of Vanity”, in TIME, archived from…. From the entry shade
• If you’re looking for juicier confessions – that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed on detective shows or reality TV – then you’ll want to look elsewhere.2014 November 12, James Martin, “Confessions of a Catholic priest”, in CNN. From the entry juicy
• The team said that many of the bones unearthed were the remains of children, leading them to believe the practice of deforming skulls “may have been inlet and dangerous.”2012 December 17, “Archeologists Unearth Alien-Like Skulls In A Mexico Cemetery”, in RedOrbit, retrieved 13 Mar 2013. From the entry inlet
• German expeditions to Central Asia in the first decade of the twentieth century unearthed literary and pictorial references to the ten kings dating from the eleventh century or later.1994, Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of…. From the entry T'u-lu-fan
• Almost every writer of power will occasionally use with strong effect an archaic term that he has unearthed from the treasures of the older English vocabulary.1900, Mary Hall Leonard, “The Revival of Old English Words”, in The Writer, volume 13, page 23. From the entry archaic
• One day they unearthed some bones in a sandhill that Mr Shinglar said were of the labyrinthodon, a great sloth-lizard that roamed in forests submerged for a thousand thousand years.1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 35. From the entry labyrinthodon

Meaning of unearth

1. verb To drive or draw from the earth.
2. verb To dig up.
3. verb To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment.

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How do you use unearth in a sentence?

Unearth is used as a verb. For example: “The dig team unearthed a kylix at the site in Bergama.”

What is a short sentence with unearth?

“to unearth a secret”

What does unearth mean?

Unearth means to drive or draw from the earth.