tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
were tunneling
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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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In 2015, investigators found that at least four HP machines dedicated to Sabre were tunneling large amounts of data to an external server.
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2019
He also confirmed that the Soviets were tunneling beneath the reactor in an attempt to seal off the damaged unit from below with concrete, thus protecting the underlying ground and water table.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was known that the Yankees were undermining our works, and we were tunneling all around to meet them, but our tunnel at the Crater missed them about fifty feet.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott
They were tunneling slowly but surely toward the city from a point about half a mile from the diving chamber.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Harry Bates
Near at hand they could see the mud heaving, very slowly, as though abysmal forms of life were tunneling along just under the surface.
From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various
