tunnel

Example Sentences

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“Your 50s are a turning point. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for big expenses like tuition and mortgages and your earning power may be peaking,” Fidelity says.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Crucially, it held on to its stockpile of nearly 1,000 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium—half of it buried in caskets in a tunnel deep under its Isfahan nuclear site, according to the U.N. atomic agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

If you tunnel your way north, through the long-shuttered rows of dead underground storefronts, you can pop back up to ground level at Fletcher Bowron Square.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

"There was no plan B, there was no other thing, it was just tunnel vision to win that medal," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

I had to dig a tunnel to get out of the igloo and attend to the dogs.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell