Channel Tunnel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They included the Channel Tunnel rail link, a toll bridge across the Thames River, and shares in a uranium-processing company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The operator blamed the travel chaos on "a problem with the overhead power supply in the Channel Tunnel and a subsequent failed Le Shuttle train".
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
Getlink, which runs the Channel Tunnel, said work continued through the night to fix the power issue.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
The 42-year-old, who was charged under his real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped by officers at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone while driving a friend's silver Bentley to Benidorm, Spain.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Just as some few poltroons in your sea-girt isle at present oppose the Channel Tunnel, which yet, in good time, will doubtless become as benign an actuality as the Suez Canal itself.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various
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