Example Sentences

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One tunneller requested a cup of tea and a sandwich.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

During her decades at sea, Winner was generally a tunneller, commissioned to bore through layers of undersea rock and sludge, after which a purpose-built tanker would float in and slurp up any finds.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2017

Hackett is the only tunneller to receive the VC during World War One.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2015

"I am a tunneller," he said, "I must look after the others first."

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2015

By no means: the Anathema Tachytes is an energetic tunneller, no doubt, but, after all, is incapable of performing so great a labour in so short a time.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander