boring machine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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To get to the boring machine we are driven for an hour in a buggy in the tunnel.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
Builders must somehow thread the needle below streets and utilities, while crisscrossing above the 1989 downtown transit tunnel, when a tunnel boring machine digs south from Uptown toward Sodo.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
This round metal device, a custom-made tunnel boring machine that’s decorated with colorful handprints, was lowered into a 138-foot shaft weeks ago and is now preparing to dig a two-mile sewer tunnel in Alexandria.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
It was one of the nation’s most ambitious urban tunneling projects, but also became known for a breakdown in the tunnel boring machine that caused a long delay.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2021
Near at hand was the framework of a boring machine, or derrick.
From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Roy Rockwood
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