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
Her other children have tunnelled under their home, building a safe zone.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2021
Yet the magazine’s final moment of thumb-in-the-eye relevance—this May, when Donald Trump compared Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E. Neuman—emphasized just how deeply Mad has tunnelled its way into the culture, waiting to inspire anew.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2019
The suspected mastermind of France’s “heist of the century” has gone on trial more than 40 years after robbers tunnelled through sewers to snatch the equivalent of €29m from a bank vault.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018
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
