tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
Example Sentences
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His body was finally pulled out late on Saturday after rescuers excavated much of an adjacent hillside and then tunnelled toward the bottom of the well.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022
On 10 March 1945, 70 German soldiers tunnelled their way out of Hut 9 and under the perimeter wire.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
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
Many houses there were, chambers, halls, and passages, cut and tunnelled back into the walls upon their inner side, so that all the open circle was overlooked by countless windows and dark doors.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
