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Usage examples of excavating.

He hailed Ramses, demanding his opinion of an unusual raised platform in the corner of the house they were excavating, and Ramses lost track of the time.

Howard carried on the hard, dirty job of excavating, Davis dropped by whenever he was so inclined, accompanied by a horde of friends and relations.

Preparing the body, transporting it, locating and excavating a suitable tomb, concealing the location-those activities would have required weeks, possibly months.

Climbing pyramids, excavating tombs, and pursuing criminals seemed to suit her, however, and who was I to deny her the rights upon which I had always insisted and of which most females in our society are unfairly deprived?

The humerus Smith and Poole were excavating was immense: five feet seven inches long.

Matt Lamanna worked at both sites, and Josh Smith and Jason Poole oversaw the difficult and ultimately dangerous job of excavating, chemically stabilizing, jacketing, and moving the enormous bones that were emerging from the sauropod quarry.

What the team was doing—partly because of the sheer size of the individual bone specimens and partly because in some cases the bones could not be safely separated in the field—was excavating and jacketing huge blocks of rock and bone, some of them weighing in excess of eight hundred pounds.

In the mines, the night shift could do more excavating of new shafts than any of the day shifts because of the watch-whers.

NUMA has reason to believe their excavating technology is having a devastating effect on sea life as far away as the Antarctic.

The vibration that results from the excavating process can churn up pumice dust, which raises hell with the lungs.

But after Dorsett scientists and engineers perfected a new method of excavating that produced four times the production in one third the time, the old ways were quickly abandoned.

Long before he began excavating diamonds with ultrasound, how many men had died who stood in his way to becoming rich and powerful?

Even a minor seismic disturbance could trigger volcanic activity from Mounts Scaggs and Winkleman, because years of excavating diamonds has removed much of the ancestral deposits containing the gaseous pressure from below.

Says Dodson, who spent subsequent days excavating this site, “These were clearly large enough to be dinosaur bones, but they were unlike any dinosaur bone I’d ever seen, and pretty quickly Matt and I agreed it had to be something else.

After discussion with Matt, they concluded the bone had belonged to a theropod, a carnivorous dinosaur, and with the help of Yousry Attia, Jean Caton, and Allison Tumarkin, they began excavating the site.