tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
were 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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And it may indeed mark a mass grave: when Victorian workers were tunnelling here, it’s said they hit a wall of human bones.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2020
The mine was under construction and the state administration of work safety said workers who were tunnelling broke into an old shaft filled with water.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
He would cross over the ridge to where his hirelings were tunnelling.
From The Short Cut by Frank Tenney Johnson
We had gone down to bed-rock, and were tunnelling in to meet the hole the Halfbreed had covered up.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
