burrow
Example Sentences
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Rats live in drains, sewers and burrows, and emerge mostly at night, so counting them is nearly impossible and estimates on rat population figures vary.
From BBC
Ella is fiercely committed to her job, burrowing into the minutiae of legislation to become deeply connected to it emotionally.
From Los Angeles Times
England finished the half, turning down a kick at goal and seeming to turn out the lights on the contest when Cowan-Dickie burrowed over from the subsequent driven line-out.
From BBC
According to him, he had indeed burrowed into a trove of data from a large materials-science company, as his paper said he did.
And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
