tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
Example Sentences
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According to the report, the six were cell mates and tunnelled out of Gilboa prison in northern Israel, where security forces launched a search.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 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
Ace fighter-plane flyer Franz von Werra successfully tunnelled out with four other prisoners, the noise of their efforts masked by a performance of the POW choir.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2015
During the construction of the dam, they tunnelled into the rock at the base of the slide and drilled hundreds of drainage holes upward into the plane of failure.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
