Sentence examples for burrowing a tunnel from inspiring English sources

They found the bird roosted in the almost impenetrably spiky spinifex grass that dots the landscape, burrowing a tunnel right into the centre, where it rests during the day, shaded from the harsh outback sun and protected from predators.

After ten days and nights burrowing a tunnel from a vacant shop opposite the bank that Rivers had rented under an assumed name from a local farmer, the idea was to break-in over the weekend while the bank was closed, swipe the loot and ride off into a glorious, financially secure sunset, straight into Port Talbot folklore.

Hamas burrowed a tunnel underneath Israel's border fence to mount a surprise raid.

Gates told VICE he had "no idea" how long they'd been dead, though they had burrowed a small network of tunnels in the spongy material of the mattress.

Let's have a laugh at the mad bloke, Richard Wallace, who lives like a rat burrowing in tunnels in a rubbish dump, that kind of thing.

A highly social member of the squirrel family known for burrowing elaborate tunnels and emitting a warning call similar to a dog's bark, they are treated as pests by most ranchers because they can spread rapidly and compete with cattle for grass.

Levy and my husband, who had been planning to spend a quiet day at the Ashmolean but was shamed out of it, immediately started following a network of burrowed tunnels — a "sett" — that led them into the wood near clusters of beech trees with small, circular swells of dark, moist earth beneath them.

Marcella Durand, 32, a poet at the St . Marks Poetry Projectin the East Village, remembers burrowing through tunnels and building igloos and snowmen in a snow-buried TriBeCa.

A six-mile stretch of the historic Columbia River Highway here has been turned into a paved bike and hiking trail and heads west to the town of Hood River, passing through forest, along cliffs, and burrowing into tunnels on one hell of an exciting bike ride.

Its likely lifestyle -- burrowing in tunnels on shore and dog-paddling in water -- reminds scientists of the modern platypus.

And it's also the longest steam railroad on the continent, covering 64 miles through forests of evergreens and aspens, along narrow ledges in canyons, burrowing through tunnels and over 100-foot high trestles.