tunnel

Truelove told her he preferred living in a subway tunnel to being on the street, because people didn’t bother him down there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Near Kangavar, in western Iran, satellite imagery from Planet Labs in March showed two tunnel entrances and an access road damaged by airstrikes aimed at blocking access to an Iranian missile base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The garden level holds a media room, guest room, laundry room and a cedar-lined 636-bottle wine cellar carved from one of the home’s original eccentricities: a secret tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

There was also work around an older tunnel network that dates from 2007, which Iran has since sealed up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

At the end of the tunnel Mr. Weiss and Mr. Gibson were waiting.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

In recent months, he ventured underground, sleeping in New York City’s subway tunnels, according to his half-sister, who requested anonymity to speak freely about her younger brother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

American forces could instead destroy the entrances and tunnels to the site to block access to the centrifuges, as they have done with other underground nuclear sites, according to experts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges into tunnels deep inside Pickaxe Mountain last fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the mine where he works, the tunnels run as deep as 1,300 metres below the surface.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Ground squirrels and hamster-like lemmings that carved tunnels in the snow.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

“At these depths, there would not be noise and vibration,” Sheridan said, noting that Metro had tunneled in similar soil conditions at similar depths without settlement problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

In 2021, using lidar technology, Estrada-Belli found evidence that looters had tunneled inside a seemingly royal pyramid within the city’s monumental core.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024

Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

He went to one of the baseball equipment bags and reached in, tunneled down to the bottom, and came up with another package, this one wrapped crudely in newspaper.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Zubaidi was also in the news in 2021, when he tunnelled out of an Israeli prison before being recaptured after five days.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025

His body was finally pulled out late on Saturday after rescuers excavated much of an adjacent hillside and then tunnelled toward the bottom of the well.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022

The road narrowed and tunnelled through the lush woods.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016

During the construction of the dam, they tunnelled into the rock at the base of the slide and drilled hundreds of drainage holes upward into the plane of failure.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Here Odysseus tunnelled, and raked together with his hands a wide bed—for a fall of leaves was there, enough to save two men or maybe three on a winter night, a night of bitter cold.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The team also examined how neighboring edge states interact, finding that their energy levels shift because of a combination of electrostatic interactions and quantum tunneling.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

To examine the material's properties, the researchers used molecular beam epitaxy together with low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, allowing them to probe its electronic behavior with atomic level precision.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

This compact book weaves together topics including the microscopic quantum tunneling required for nuclear fusion and the macroscopic geometry of spacetime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

There is so much history buried beneath the ground that we seem to forget, and once you start tunneling, you realize that it’s always been there and it hasn’t disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The first stop was the south-east corner, where Foremole and his crew had a monotonous task: night and day they monitored the grounds for sounds of tunneling.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Cowi's tunnelling timeline has three years for preliminary work and five years for construction.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

However, in her Budget in October the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, committed to the funding required to begin tunnelling work to Euston.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can be reproduced not only in the quantum world, but also in electrical circuits in the 'real world'.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can happen not only in a more theoretical world, but also in electrical circuits in the 'real world'.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley