UNEARTH in a Sentence
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35 example sentences for UNEARTH, such as:
1. Cats' cries have an unearthly quality.
2. Suddenly there came an unearthly shriek.
3. The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
4. A private detective has apparently unearthed some fresh evidence.
5. Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall.
2. Suddenly there came an unearthly shriek.
3. The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
4. A private detective has apparently unearthed some fresh evidence.
5. Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of UNEARTH
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unearth
v. bring up out of earth; dig up; bring to public notice; uncover
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
2 I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.
3 I approached this tremendous being; I dared not again raise my eyes to his face, there was something so scaring and unearthly in his ugliness.
4 There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
5 She carried a bare candle in her hand, which she had probably taken from one of the sconces in her own room, and was a most unearthly object by its light.
6 I don't know what it was, in her touch or voice, that made that song the most unearthly I have ever heard in my life, or can imagine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
7 Suddenly there came an unearthly shriek.
8 There was the same change in it from earthly to unearthly that is seen in the face of the dead.
9 The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
10 In the rays of the late afternoon sun, every well-remembered field and forest grove was green and still, with an unearthly quiet that struck terror to Scarlett's heart.
11 His eyes were closed and his face had a look of slack, unearthly peace.
12 But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the squares of tattooing.
13 No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.
14 Cassy knew Legree was uneasy under her eyes, and, therefore, she made no answer, but sat fixing them on him, with that strange, unearthly expression, as before.
15 A wild gust of wind swept down, extinguishing the candle he held in his hand, and with it the fearful, unearthly screams; they seemed to be shrieked in his very ear.
Example Sentence:
1 When they unearth the city, the archeologists find many relics of an ancient civilization.
2 The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
3 Cats' cries have an unearthly quality.
4 In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the spirit Ariel is an ethereal creature, too airy and unearthly for our mortal world.
5 Building at the site was halted after human remains were unearthed earlier this month.
6 Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall.
7 The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
8 A private detective has apparently unearthed some fresh evidence.
9 The costs for a salvage project are colossal, and the clues unearthed by a researcher can make or break a project.
10 Researchers have unearthed documents indicating her responsibility for the forced adoption of children.
11 While excavating the site for a new hotel, workers unearthed the remains of several dinosaurs.