Sentence examples for would burrow from inspiring English sources

Give him a word, and he would burrow joyously into its etymology.

It would burrow under Brooklyn and the East River into Lower Manhattan.

From early in his tenure, Bolton would burrow in his West Wing office with copious binders of intelligence.

The architects would burrow down from the parlor floor of the tenement into its basement and below.

To cross the Alps, a high-speed train would require a new kind of tunnel — one that would burrow through the very bottom of the mountains.

Beverly Hills officials oppose a proposed stretch of the Purple Line because it would burrow under a public high school; they want the line moved a few blocks north.

"Would burrowing more deeply deter an attack, or would it only tempt both sides, all sides to attack the others' networks preemptively?" These, Kaplan writes, were the questions that "some tried to answer but no one ever did" during the nuclear confrontations of the cold war.

But many others would simply burrow more deeply into the underground economy, working as day laborers or for mom-and-pop employers under the government's radar.

The government and members of the military and civil service would have burrowed here, along with the gold reserve of the Bank of Canada.

In late winter, he rolled juicy, big-flaked fillets around a mousse of flounder and black truffle flecks; I would have burrowed into it until spring if I hadn't also wanted to eat the whole thing.

Just before Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, and joined to it by a new underground station, a three-mile tunnel would begin, burrowing under Brooklyn and the East River into Lower Manhattan.