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Discover LudwigThe phrase "rabbit burrow" is correct and commonly used in written English.
Example: The children eagerly searched for rabbit burrows in the forest, hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive animals.
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He may be there today, living in a rabbit burrow, with a rabbit to keep house for him and a ferret — a kindly one — to come for afternoon tea.
The story was that he had been up Central, living in a rabbit burrow, where a rabbit kept house for him and he invited ferrets, kindly ones, in for afternoon tea.
He sat there holding the stained cup in his small wrinkled hands, and he looked like the kindly ferret come to take tea with Gavin Highly in the home that was a rabbit burrow.
Another outsider, and one with big dreams, is the title character in "Gavin Highly," a vagrant who, seen through children's eyes, once lived in a rabbit burrow and is in league with oysters, birds and frogs ("There was no way, it seemed, of being in league with people").
In his The Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White notes that western jackdaws used to nest in crevices beneath the lintels of Stonehenge, and describes an example of the bird using a rabbit burrow for nesting.
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My dog was investigating a sandy bank riddled with rabbit burrows.
Iberian farmers have allowed environmentalists to build artificial rabbit burrows on their land to help feed the lynxes.
On seven or eight flat-topped hummocks that look like the remains of collapsed rabbit burrows is a pile, or the remains of a pile, of otter leavings.
Photograph: Wim van Egmond 12.53pm GMT Hole in one: A rabbit burrows into the side of practice bunker at the Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai.
In the case of rabbits, for example, a ferret is released into rabbit burrows to flush them into waiting nets or traps.
At Askernish, Ebert and Irvine were determined to create golf holes the way Old Tom Morris and his contemporaries did, by doing virtually nothing beyond cutting the grass and filling in old rabbit burrows.
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