Sentence examples for tunnelling from inspiring English sources

Using the inspiration of her Greek adventure, Hepworth dived into the wood, tunnelling through it, almost as she had mined grief for her son.

Subatomic particles tunnelling across gaps in the nose when aroma molecules are around may be the first step in how animals sense scent.

There are no assurances that the northern part of the route, which will not be finalised until 2014, will see equivalent lengths of tunnelling.

Direct talks between the hostage-takers and President Alberto Fujimori's government began in early February but broke down a month later, when the guerrillas claimed that policemen were tunnelling under the house.

Tunnelling into casinos and charging into banks are far sexier ways to steal.

A recent report by Tongyang Securities, a broker, drew an explicit link between Korea's low equity valuations and the practices of "tunnelling" and "propping", which benefit insiders at the expense of smaller investors.Tunnelling is the awarding of contracts to firms owned by family members.

The western section would involve tunnelling through mountains to link the headwaters of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.

Potentially, this could allow one resonant-tunnelling transistor to substitute for dozens of conventional ones.However, quantum-effect devices have some severe flaws of their own.

Federico Capasso at Bell Laboratories (now part of Lucent Technologies) in New Jersey, one of the creators of the resonant-tunnelling transistor, points out that it has a raging thirst for electricity, and a chip packed with them would be "as hot as a stove".

By then, the components on a chip will have shrunk to a point where quantum-tunnelling effects make it difficult for a processor to function efficiently.

Another, the "resonant-tunnelling transistor", has an extra advantage: instead of being simply "on" or "off" it can have a large number of distinct states in between.