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.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNEARTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
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
7  Suddenly there came an unearthly shriek.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 15
8  There was the same change in it from earthly to unearthly that is seen in the face of the dead.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 16
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  His eyes were closed and his face had a look of slack, unearthly peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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.