rabbit warren
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rabbit warren
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Decades later I have fallen into a rabbit warren of romance and romance-adjacent novels with glee.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
I met Jade Oliver in a rabbit warren of rickety old rooms above a shop in Ross-on Wye, picking flowers from a rainbow of colours.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2023
Orfield Laboratories is laid out like a rabbit warren: a largely windowless hodgepodge of isolated rooms and passageways of unpredictable sizes and shapes arranged along a meandering path of blind curves.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
The team avoids collisions by yelling “corner” and “behind” when navigating around one another and the blind spots in the rabbit warren of a kitchen.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022
I’m hoping that Gideon got out alive; perhaps there was another chamber down in that rabbit warren of his.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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