Example Sentences

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Its small, flat, triangular cerebellum, for instance, indicates it was likely an adept burrower, but other features imply that it didn’t spend its entire life underground, the researchers report today in Science Advances.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

“I'm more of a much burrower and just push narrowly, straight ahead.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2015

An owl hooted, and the rustling of brushwood told me of the near proximity of some fur-coated burrower in the ground.

From Scottish Ghost Stories by O'Donnell, Elliott

The skull and some other bones were present, but most of the remains had disappeared into the runway of a burrower.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

That deadly clutch tore up some grass-roots and some fresh earth, but just failed to reach the diligent burrower.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir