The word "burrowing" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to make a tunnel or hole. Example sentence: The gophers were burrowing into the ground to make their homes.
At the crease he holds himself with a crouched, dense, burrowing intensity, before punching at balls with the sudden anger of a caged rat.
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".
All around Talabre are other canyons, like Quezala, little ribbons of miraculous life burrowing down the Andes for over 2,000 metres into the desert.
But Dr Gabet suspects other burrowing animals have the same effect, and suggests dissecting Mima mounds in different places, to see what is living in them.
Then he let this model run for the equivalent of several hundred years of burrowing.
Moreover, the absence of mounds in Antarctica, a continent devoid of burrowing mammals, is consistent with his hypothesis.Even with this biological explanation, however, Mima mounds still have a geological feel to them.
Its initial pride at imposing internal security, constructing an effective administration and rebuilding Gaza by burrowing tunnels into Egypt is turning to embarrassment.
The Post Office, a sacred cow which even Mrs Thatcher feared to tackle, is a test of New Labour's claim to have found a third way between privatisation and public control.For the past six months, four working groups from the Department of Trade and Industry have been burrowing away seeking a solution.
He works on clams and is building robot versions of them to find out how the shape of an animal's shell affects its chances of survival.Many types of clam escape predators by burrowing into the sea bed using alternating movements of their shell and of the soft, muscular foot contained within that shell.
Instead they found themselves facing Helmut Schmidt as chancellor, an altogether tougher customer.Still, Mr Wolf had plenty of other "moles" burrowing just as diligently as Mr Guillaume.
The red swamp crayfish, for example, has tucked into the paddy fields of the Iberian peninsula with gusto, eating rice seedlings and burrowing into the banks of drainage channels, causing them to collapse.
