Example Sentences

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Her other children have tunnelled under their home, building a safe zone.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2021

Over a century, the miners have tunnelled so deep into the earth – 2km at some points – that they have now literally undermined the town.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

They have tunnelled along the San Andreas Fault, under the Yangtze River and beside the Bosporus, through catacombs in Rome and petrified pilings in Cairo.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2008

If he could have tunnelled a mountain with this shell, or if he had but partially succeeded in so doing, money would have come to him.

From The Great Stone of Sardis by Stockton, Frank Richard

They have tunnelled under the whole breadth of the land.

From A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine by Thoreau, Henry David