tunnel
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
A newly developed textile covering helped strawberry plants produce more than three times as much fruit in tunnel field trials, while showing no harmful effects on plant health.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The expansion would mean demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting rivers, and rerouting the M25 motorway between junctions 14 and 15 through a tunnel under the new runway.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Maharjan said he survived by reaching an upper floor of the tunnel site and drinking water while waiting for help.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
There’s a long walk through a tunnel to many American gates and greeters try to arrange a car if one is available, a perk typically only guaranteed if you buy Five Star Select.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
I stick my arms out and feel around, but my hands never find the tunnel walls.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Footprint tunnels have also been installed at Bere Marsh Farm in Dorset and at Pierrepont Farm and Green Farm in Surrey.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Military analysts say that one potential legitimate use of the large payload bombs would be destroying underground tunnels and bunkers, places ordinary bombs can’t reach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nepal rescuers are still excavating hydropower tunnels swamped by freezing mud, with hundreds of workers among the missing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these tunnels were used to store human remains from overcrowded cemeteries.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
“Our estimates suggest that in 2019, 63% of nursing home profits were hidden and tunneled to related parties through inflated transfer prices,” the study says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
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
The last thing she saw, through her tunneled view, was Ekon’s blurred silhouette as he marched away.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
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
The Boring Company recently closed an investment round that would value the tunneling startup at around $20 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Instead, it appears to travel through quantum mechanical tunneling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
There are strict rules in California around the purchasing of dynamite, which is generally restricted to licensed professionals working in mining and quarry operations, building demolitions, tunneling projects and specialized industrial activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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
They are widely seen as a pest on agricultural land because their tunnelling can damage the root systems of crops and pasture and the molehills can cause damage to machinery.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
Professor Clarke and his team looked at how these particles appeared to break rules like travelling through energy barriers that conventional physics said was impossible - something called "tunnelling".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Michael Greiner is the head of tunnelling at SCS JV.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
Soft, soft, but how piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling through resolution.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
