Example Sentences

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“These things leak long before they get overtopped,” said Strudley, noting that one of the biggest problems is burrowing animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Montreal is burrowing a 235-foot-deep station into a suburban mountainside.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022

In keeping with a theme of a more responsible Google, the company also introduced features aimed at addressing how technology is burrowing deeper into our lives — sometimes in negative ways.

From New York Times • May 8, 2018

For all the talk of pantomime being a British affair, our beloved art form is burrowing its way into other cultures.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2016

Either he is burrowing in some corner of the castle . . . or else he has gone out by a door which I cannot see from here.

From 813 by Leblanc, Maurice