rabbit warren
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rabbit warren
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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As the US heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
Decades later I have fallen into a rabbit warren of romance and romance-adjacent novels with glee.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
Sources disagree on where that was, whether in a farmyard or in the dirt-floored fruit cellar under Rabbitt’s house — the rabbit warren, so to speak.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
The place was like a gigantic rabbit warren, with passages leading this way and that in every direction.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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