Sentence examples for to burrowing from inspiring English sources

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to burrowing

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To dig a tunnel or hole.

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"There are Megaselia that do everything," Hartop said, from infesting farmed mushrooms to burrowing through coffins and feeding on the corpses inside.

They had the means to evolve new ways of reshaping their embryos to produce a wide range of forms — from big predators to burrowing mud-feeders.

So-called "thundering herds" blanketed much of the Great Plains -- rototilling, fertilizing, grazing builders that nurtured vast grasslands and gave home to everything from black-footed ferrets to burrowing owls.

Not taking this in stride, parents have turned to increasingly elaborate smuggling routines, from hollowing out Harry Potter books to burrowing holes in tennis balls to get their little dumplings a taste of the checkout aisle.

We've seen them naked, not just physically but emotionally; for by pointing her lens at the people close to her constantly over such a long period, she has managed an intimacy few others have come close to, burrowing beneath the surface to show the feelings which lie beneath.

They concluded too (thanks to Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor, and his disconcertingly detailed account of Mr Clinton's antics with Miss Lewinsky), that there was a limit to burrowing into a president's private behaviour.Some of this greater tolerance is now being applied to candidates merely seeking the White House.

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I want them to burrow into your brain like Lydia Jaackson-Oberman.

Damian Gibson then exposed some woeful Huddersfield defence to burrow over.

"We'd all like to burrow into them," Mrs. Nesbitt said.

But with Five Nights in Maine, she fails to burrow deep enough to warrant the exercise.

Tells me which parks to avoid in daylight and what fences are easiest to burrow under.

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