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Example sentences for "burrowers"

Lexicographically close words:
burring; burro; burros; burrow; burrowed; burrowing; burrows; burrs; burs; bursa
  1. Just a knoll in rolling farm country, that was all; but it concealed burrows upon burrows of burrowers more cunning than any rodents--men.

  2. The greater number of this group, however, are burrowers into the ground, and stock their nests with flies of some kind.

  3. Our last example of the earth-burrowers belonging to this genus is Crabro Wesmoeli, which chooses similar localities, being mostly found in sand-banks.

  4. Although these cells were not fossorial in their nature, several other species of the same genus are as accomplished burrowers as any insect.

  5. One of the most determined of our British burrowers is the insect which is known by the name of Ammophila sabulosa.

  6. The wind, too, is a besom over the treeless spaces, whisking new sand over the litter of the scant-leaved shrubs, and the little doorways of the burrowers are as trim as city fronts.

  7. About the time the burrowers and all that feed upon them are addressing themselves to sleep, great flocks pour down the trails with that peculiar melting motion of moving quail, twittering, shoving, and shouldering.

  8. Well, your grandmother's people are the bottom-most burrowers of all.

  9. These arrogant back-burrowers with their ornamented straps and unmilitary manners!


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burrowers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.