Sentence examples for tunnel cutting from inspiring English sources

Then the Humvee entered the tunnel, cutting off his view.

Running beneath the Alps, it is the world's longest railway land tunnel, cutting more than an hour off travel time from Zurich, Bern and Basel to Zermatt (from Zurich, the train ride is now just three hours and 15 minutes).

Mr. Qasuri said he would personally contest three seats simultaneously — a quirk of the Pakistani system — in Karachi, Lahore and in the mountainous northwestern district of Chitral, where residents are grateful for a tunnel cutting through the mountains that was built during Mr. Musharraf's tenure.

Although one company offered to drop a piloted mini-sub into the aqueduct, city officials turned it down, saying the risk was too great to send a person on a voyage in a flooded tunnel cutting deep beneath the Shawangunk Mountains and 550 feet beneath the bed of the Hudson River.

Dynamite established Nobel's fame worldwide and was soon put to use in blasting tunnels, cutting canals, and building railways and roads.

An extensive road project is expected to widen the current road to the township of Deqin to two lanes and add tunnels, cutting the now six-hour drive from Gyalthang, a more touristed region, also known as Zhongdian and Shangri-La, to three hours.

We estimate they climbed down and had power tools and were able to get out to this facility through tunnels, cutting away at several spots".

But a third tunnel would also have statewide impact, as it would nearly double the current tunnel capacity, cutting down on trip time across the board and allowing for more frequent trains.

Backstage after their spring show, the designers Viktor & Rolf explained that because of the credit crunch, they had decided to "crunch their couture" -- literally, burrowing tunnels and cutting away slices in their extravagant tulle dresses.

The country's infrastructure is undergoing massive expansion and improvement: Roads are being widened, treacherous switchbacks are getting guardrails, and freshly dug tunnels are cutting travel times by an hour or more.

The directional expansion of cracks is satisfactory, the results of the model test and field test suggested that the orientation fracture blasting with shaped charge is a good means of excavating tunnels or cutting rock.