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Despite warnings that an escape attempt would turn the Romanian guards against the prisoners, Bob O’Reilly, Poulson’s Missouri-born pilot, schemes with a number of POWs to tunnel out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Those fans then booed the players as soon as Carrick went down the tunnel.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The incident evoked memories of one of the biggest jailbreaks in Tamil Nadu in 1995 when 43 suspected militants escaped from a special camp after digging a 153-foot-long tunnel beneath a historic fort.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

They resemble a glowing white tunnel, 30 feet long and 12 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The stink got stronger as he followed the tunnel, hearing nothing but his own breathing, seeing nothing but glimpses of glistening red stone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Soldiers cram into tunnels with a diameter of around 4 feet, sleeping in bunkers that are cut through the side of these steel tunnels, Ukrainian troops say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

If the warning sounded, Soviet civil defense planners explained, up to two million people could fit into the subway tunnels under Moscow.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

It tunneled 435 feet through the mountains for slightly easier descents and ascents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

Something wiggling and strange tunneled through my stomach, half excitement, half terror.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019

The suspected mastermind of France’s “heist of the century” has gone on trial more than 40 years after robbers tunnelled through sewers to snatch the equivalent of €29m from a bank vault.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2018

Here Odysseus tunnelled, and raked together with his hands a wide bed—for a fall of leaves was there, enough to save two men or maybe three on a winter night, a night of bitter cold.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

However, those earlier designs operated on surfaces and relied on the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope to drive their movement.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 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

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

With highly sensitive tunneling spectroscopy measurements, the researchers found that NbSe2 does not behave like a straightforward superconductor governed by only one superconducting order.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

I can see the pain tunneling its way through her face and body.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Their work demonstrated that tunnelling can happen not only in a more theoretical 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