burrow
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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Instead, they leave the dropped fruit and burrow into the soil, where they continue developing until maturity.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
Then in spring this year, cameras set up as part of the rat eradication programme caught two puffins coming and going from a nesting burrow on the cliff ledges.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
The building stretches far above our heads, its 400 million pounds suspended by 14 fan-shaped steel columns that pierce the lobby’s marble floor and burrow into Manhattan’s bedrock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Ajax found the biggest burrow I’d seen in a long while.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing burrow
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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James and the Giant Peach
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