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

The stream of water will burrow between the paint and the surface and blast it away, usually doing little harm to the siding or trim.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Another instrument will burrow nearly 16 feet into the soil to measure the heat coming from the interior of the planet, which, like Earth, is still cooling from its fiery creation 4.5 billion years ago.

From Scientific American • Dec. 22, 2018

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

Wild beasts, as well as cattle, greedily devour this incrustation, and will burrow into the clay impregnated with salt in order to lick the mud.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles