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were burrowed
verb
To dig a tunnel or hole.
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The pods were "burrowed banelings" — suicidal fluorescent creatures, lying in wait, like land mines.
Long tunnels were burrowed through hills to build a road from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, to the Laotian border, which was completed in 2008.
In the early '70s, short sections of the Second Avenue tunnel were burrowed at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, between 99th Street and 105th and between 110th and 120th, before the city's looming bankruptcy in 1975 halted all digging.
And it said next to nothing about its fears that fundamentalists were burrowed in Pakistan's huge nuclear complex, or about the country's race to expand its arsenal, one of the fastest-growing in the world, a buildup that American officials fear could put more nuclear material at risk of falling into the hands of terrorists.
The upper 5 6 cm of the sediment columns were burrowed.
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The only remaining point was what they were burrowing for.
However, he took a closer look when he heard they were burrowing into the sand.
Will tunnels be burrowed into their words?
And here he was, burrowed away.
There are no holes that have been burrowed by insects".
Not once does he so much as lift his head from being burrowed in his jacket.
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