tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
had tunnelled
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past perfectof tunnel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The train had tunnelled all the earth, blindly, and uglily.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Really, he had made astonishing speed for one who had tunnelled his way underp. 18ground.
From The Tale of Grandfather Mole by Arthur Scott Bailey
In old days before the railways had tunnelled through the passes we were driving over the Fluela above Davos on our way to Italy in March.
From Ski-running by Katharine Symonds Furse
His head appeared through the drive which he had tunnelled to meet Potch's and Michael's drive on the eastern side of the mine.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
They had tunnelled and walled, and wherever sunbeams fell had cast back the snow that hung above the galleries.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
