tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
was tunnelling
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past progressiveof tunnel.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I was now exposed to a new danger: should I fall as I was tunnelling away, I should break my legs.
From Dick Onslow Among the Redskins by Soper, George
She knew that Andreo was tunnelling it, and one day a tiny hole proclaimed that his work was accomplished.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
