Sentence examples for burrow out from inspiring English sources

"burrow out" is considered a grammatically correct phrase in written English.
It is an informal phrase meaning to dig or excavate a burrow. For example: The rabbits had to burrow out a new shelter before the storm came.

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They burrow out from beneath a huge heap of inflatable plastic sex dolls whose appendages and orifices manage to be both graphic and absurd.

According to water vole ecologist Rebecca Northey, who is working on the project, the animals will be placed in release pens and fed for five days, after which they are free to burrow out into the surrounding water.

They are now left to hope that once certain temporary problems pass — like the automotive supply chain disruption caused by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and higher oil prices caused by unrest in the Middle East — a robust recovery will finally burrow out from beneath the rubble.

Secondly, there is no evidence of any attempt by these organisms to burrow out of their mud "prison". Killed instantly by the mudslides, preservation began immediately.

But, even if you live in a rambling period pile, it's not always easy or affordable to burrow out the basement or convert the loft.

There are three linked stories here: one is a prison-break, with the worst convicts imaginable trying to burrow out of a truly horrific prison – they are buried in the heart of an asteroid, and have to drill the rock to find water before the air supply runs out.

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The vertebrate retina is inverse, with the neurons emerging from the front of the retina and the nerve fibres burrowing out through the optic disk at the back of the eye to form the optic nerve.

"I catapulted myself over the wire on a giant rubber band, I burrowed out through the walls like one of the mites in the German cheese, I soared on home-made glider wings," he recalled.It was during one such spell, in the infamous Stalag Luft III, that he heard the sirens blare, marking the discovery of the ill-fated mass breakout known as the "Great Escape".

After enough requests, Facebook burrowed out a bunch of offices in Building 17 of its headquarters, drilled giant support columns down to the bedrock to support the heavy machinery, and turned the space into a gleaming white, futuristic hack center.

Now he has to deliver, Burrow pointed out: He can do something about it.

She spent most of her forty-three yealonelone in a silk-lined burrow, venturing out only to mate and eat termites, but she became a matriarch of her colony and an inspiration to scientists.

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