Sentence examples for as a burrowing from inspiring English sources

This is the "half life" of Estrin's subtitle: as a creature incapable of fully inhabiting either the insect world or humanity, he settles for working hard, as industriously as a burrowing bug, to move history in what he thinks is the proper direction.

The site had been used in the past as a burrow pit where sand was mined for the Lagos Ibadan road construction.

It is ubiquitous in some fine-grained sediments, where it has been interpreted as a burrow formed deeper than any other trace fossils, below the redox boundary.

That might be because Dipoides used another strategy, such as hibernating in a burrow or nest, to survive harsh winters.

They'd nest in this sort of terrain as happily as they would in a burrow, and I wonder if these are young birds prospecting for a future site – or whether a couple of pairs have already moved in.

As a youth, Burrows sold wallpaper for his father and hated the job.

A small plastic trash can with shredded paper functions as a sham burrow and enriches the environment.

This caiman sometimes uses a burrow as shelter during the day and in the Pantanal may aestivate in the burrow in order to stay cool in the dry season.

The couch also includes modern amenities such as a USB charger, and Burrow has also "launched an AR app that helps customers visualize a Burrow in their home," according to Kuhl.

BURROWING When political appointees find their party out of power, they often seek to stay on the government payroll by taking a different but similar job as a civil servant, burrowing in like a hibernating animal until their party should take up the reins again.

Yack suspected that the behavior arose as a defense against burrowing moles, whose digging also produces sounds at about 100 hertz, or as a response to the vibrations caused by falling rain, which can saturate the soil and drown some worm species.