tunnel

"But these always fall on deaf ears. There's a bit of tunnel vision going on."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The project, which has an estimated price tag of £33bn, would see hundreds of homes demolished, rivers diverted and the M25 motorway rerouted through a tunnel between junctions 14 and 15.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

To investigate how nightjars fly, researchers studied the birds in a wind tunnel, recording their movements at different speeds and measuring the patterns of airflow left behind their wings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The tunnel will be mapped out and explored by Jay’s physical self; the Louvre’s electronics are investigated via Chiara’s VR goggles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

She chanted a few more words, and the green dome opened on one side to allow a tunnel to stretch forth.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Once the lava drains away, it can leave behind hollow tunnels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Since it began surveys in May, the CRT has installed 39 footprint tunnels along hedgerows and woodland edges, with nine of the tunnels recording dormouse footprints.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Many tunnels are faster, safer and much more expensive for migrants who would otherwise face increasingly dangerous mountain and desert routes, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Ah, the tunnels, yer honor. You’re talkin’ to the very creature.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Separated from his regiment in the fighting, Thomas was captured by the enemy but has tunneled his way out of prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

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

The agency has assumed 12 years overall construction from 2027-2039, for the mostly tunneled Sodo-to-Ballard extension.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

Voilà, your water wave has tunneled through a wall!

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Carefully he turned the soft yellow pages of his book, a few delicately tunneled by worms.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said crews tunnelled through the debris to get to the two people inside the car and stabilise the vehicle.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021

Yet the magazine’s final moment of thumb-in-the-eye relevance—this May, when Donald Trump compared Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E. Neuman—emphasized just how deeply Mad has tunnelled its way into the culture, waiting to inspire anew.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2019

The road narrowed and tunnelled through the lush woods.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016

Many houses there were, chambers, halls, and passages, cut and tunnelled back into the walls upon their inner side, so that all the open circle was overlooked by countless windows and dark doors.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, a technique capable of imaging surfaces at the atomic level, the researchers confirmed that the steps ran parallel to one another and directly observed vortices positioned along them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Quantum tunneling allows particles to move between states in ways that would not be possible under ordinary classical rules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Boring Company, a tunneling startup that works closely with Tesla, just raised $3 billion through a private funding round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Elon Musk continues to draw investment dollars — this time for a tunneling company that just raised $3 billion so it can help “solve traffic” via expensive underground tunnels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Root and the surrounding LEP officers rushed for cover, but Foaly, who had never actually seen a dwarf tunneling, decided to stay for a peek.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

McGoran also says that technologies such as laser-guidance systems and gyroscopes, which help machines work out their position relative to the world around them, have made tunnelling more accurate in recent years.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

If tunnelling releases it into a confined space and it comes into contact with a spark or another ignition source, it can ignite or explode, a government official said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

Using quantum "tunnelling", the electron manages to burrow through the energy barrier.

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