Sentence examples for burrow about from inspiring English sources

Fired from crossbows or rifles, these darts burrow about an inch into a whale's skin, then pop out and float in the water.

The main burrow is dug about 2 metres (6.6 feet) below the surface and is constructed with separate chambers for nesting, food storage, and waste.

It could roof itself in, gird itself about, burrow itself under.

"In the PhenoTyper, animals can move about, burrow in bedding, eat and drink, dig holes, and play—[it's cozier] than the older test cages, which are bare plastic and far from a natural environment," says Lucas Noldus, founder and managing director of NIT.

While the satellite male does not approach the other marmots in the colony, they sometimes make trips over to the satellite male's burrow, often about two times an hour.

In response to attacks by the tiphiid wasp Methocha, the larvae of several species of tiger beetles have been observed flipping out their burrow, thrashing about on the surface, and then crawling away ([24], [25]).

The crickets will burrow down about an inch below the topsoil in order to lay their eggs.

Diameters of the burrows are typically about 1 millimeter, Droser says.

"It was actually mud that had been displaced when the Titanic's bow hit bottom and burrowed in about 60 feet.

It was just the mud that had been displaced when the Titanic's bow hit bottom and burrowed in about 20 meters.

They were also much more active: Three-month-old rats were seen climbing 76 times per day on average, whereas rats of all ages burrowed for about 20 30 minutes per day.