Example Sentences

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Poitras and Goldin are burrowing deeper, looking at what fuels our humanity and drives our will to live.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Ocean tides are burrowing beneath a thick sheet of Antarctic ice—dubbed the “doomsday glacier” for its threat of boosting global sea levels—and melting it from below, a study has found.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Although there are burrowing spiders—who burrow homes inside the dirt, for instance—they cannot pierce through something as tough as fruits or plants.

From National Geographic • Jan. 12, 2024

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Chinese construction-equipment makers are burrowing into Caterpillar Inc.'s backyard and they're counting on people like Lon Coonto do it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 15, 2011

Here we are burrowing in this beastly world that isn't a world, with its inky ocean hidden in some abominable blackness below, and outside that torrid day and that death stillness of night.

From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)