Sentence examples for burrows by from inspiring English sources

A long-term study of the construction of burrows by deer mice has the beginnings of an answer.

Territorial and solitary, the blind mole rat excavates a network of burrows by digging with its incisors, pushing the loosened soil beneath its belly with its forefeet, and then kicking the pile behind itself with its hind feet.

Milan Lucic taunted Burrows by thrusting his fingers toward Burrows's mouth in a continuation of the hostilities surrounding Burrows's bite of Patrice Bergeron in Game 1. Bruins Coach Claude Julien, who said Monday morning he would not stand for that kind of taunting on his team after Vancouver's Maxim Lapierre did it in Game 2, said he was "disappointed" by Lucic's actions.

Now all 72 needles were dragged inside the burrows by their base (Fig. 1b, Pinus 3).

One hundred and eighty-one were drawn into the burrowerey or near their tips, 20 by their bases, andrawnnear the mintoe.

Shown are the percentage of "leaves" dragged into burrows by the tip (black), the base (white), or the middle section (gray).

The downy young is fed in the burrow by both parents.

Worms with a protrusible proboscis (a tubular extension of the oral region) generally burrow by the contract anchor extend method.

A flow of water is maintained through the burrow by peristaltic contractions of the body wall muscles.

Mr. Burrow, by contrast, is called a patriot who at worst cut corners in his rush to honor veterans before they die.

Fledged chicks eventually desert the burrow by night and may be coaxed out by a fish dangling in the parent's bill.