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burrowing
noun as in mining
Strongest match
Strong matches
- boring
- digging
- hollowing
- pitting
- prospecting
- quarrying
- scooping
- tapping
- tunneling
- unearthing
Example Sentences
“In California, we have the fifth-biggest economy in the world. We can have solar and housing and food and burrowing owls.”
The New York Times decided that Smith & Dench "sink into their roles as comfortably as house cats burrowing into a down quilt on a windswept, rainy night".
A renewed effort to list burrowing owls under the California Endangered Species Act just cleared an early hurdle.
Western burrowing owls are diminutive, adorable and goofy — and conservation organizations have renewed calls for the state to protect them before it’s too late.
By burrowing, she said, the wombats provide “value for the broader community. I don’t see that in any of our Fire Ecology 101, and that’s really neat.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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