Sentence examples for began burrowing from inspiring English sources

Some time later, she again heard somebody walk overhead and then move off to one side, and whoever it was began burrowing.

Once the lizards began burrowing, their arms and legs gradually became reduced in size and they eventually took on a superficially snakelike appearance.

A20 A Battle Over Prairie Dogs As new houses and stores have taken over land that was once their homes, prairie dogs have begun burrowing into playgrounds and athletic fields in Boulder, Colo.

Just before Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, and joined to it by a new underground station, a three-mile tunnel would begin, burrowing under Brooklyn and the East River into Lower Manhattan.

He did so, he says, because the project will have a devastating impact on the valley, for the mountain into which excavators have begun burrowing is rich in asbestos, a substance so toxic that "there is no such thing as a harmless level of exposure".

Like, desperate?" Niveen began crying, burrowing her face in a jail blanket that was wrapped around her shoulders.

It was in the late 1980s, he said, that he began to burrow his own tiny, meandering tunnel through the art world.

My redhead Jewish friend's prominent Star of David was buttoned up and eyes began to burrow into us.

I quit playing football (and baseball, soccer, tennis, and poker) when the derisive laughter got too loud and my self-esteem began to burrow underground in a vain attempt to run for cover, but after a few years my friendship with Jimmer regrouped and took other forms: lots of talk about books, records, and poetry and lots and lots of weed.

Worms that were not collected began to burrow back into the ground after traveling some distance.

The fish were invisible to divers until disturbed by the sponge, at which point they quickly moved several meters away and began to burrow again in the sand.