burrow
noun
a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal to live or hide in.
will burrow
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future tenseof burrow.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The 4.5-mile rail project will burrow beneath the New Jersey Palisades, the Hudson River and the Hudson Yards into Penn Station.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Pigs are one of the few mammals without a gene to regulate body temperature, which is why pigs will burrow in hay during the winter.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2017
Pigs are one of the few mammals without a gene to regulate body temperature, which is why pigs will burrow in hay during the winter months.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
A single female will burrow 10-20” deep with up to ten separate chambers for her eggs.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 28, 2013
Where the sea has found a fault in the rock it will burrow incessantly till it has bored out for itself a cavern, and the head of this falling in produces a tiny cove.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
