tunnels

Example Sentences

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When mining operations shut down after roughly 80 years, they left behind more than empty tunnels.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

County’s population, are largely excluded from the region’s most consequential planning decisions regarding infrastructure projects like transit lines and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Israel concentrated on using air strikes to close the exit tunnels for the missile launchers, but the bases themselves proved hard to destroy, Israeli officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

After 20 more hours in which the rescue teams used pumps to lower the water level in the flooded tunnels, Zapata could finally be taken to the surface.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Alex gathers up a couple of pebbles and tosses one into each of the tunnels.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas