Sentence examples for were tunnelling from inspiring English sources
verb
To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
"The modem's faithful churn," he writes, "made it seem as if it were tunnelling through to somewhere else, opening up a space for us to inhabit.
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.
I was told about the huge veins of crystal they found when they were tunnelling deep under the mountains.
Preaching before the House of Commons on 5 November 1644, Charles Herle claimed that Papists were tunnelling "from Oxford, Rome, Hell, to Westminster, and there to blow up, if possible, the better foundations of your houses, their liberties and privileges".
Were tunnelling, pollen-eating beetles therefore essential to its pollination?
The two ECG leads were tunneled subcutaneously.
Twenty-nine CVC were tunneled included the 16 CVC axillary sites.
These catheters were tunneled subcutaneously to exit from the neck.
The new wires were tunnelled to the right lumbar region above the belt line.
We'd been tunnelling toward each other for years.
Some sections of the channel are tunnelled through solid rock.
