Voles, living in clover and alfalfa, do not make runways as distinct as they do in grasslands.
Voles were trapped in runways of the cotton rats, but no cotton rat was caught in a typical runway of a vole.
In the winter, when the snow flattened the grass on the campus so that there were no longer protective canopies of blades over the runways of the voles, they migrated into areas of Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica).
In areas where this vine was not available, the voles abandoned their surface runways and remained below the ground, coming to the surface only under the protection of a blanket of snow.
Stoves heat most of the wards, and hospital linoleum covers the runways between the rows of beds.
Soon the music of the hounds went ringing over the hill and down the hollow; but though the dogs ran true, and the hunter watched the runways all day with something more than his usual interest, he got no glimpse of the wily old fox.
Runways should be on an incline, so that the door when not held open will close itself.
Wooden runways iron lined, which we frequently see, are not good, as the charring of the wood in the interior causes them to weaken and the doors to drop.
Their hooves penetrated grass-roofed runways and now and then plowed into a nest.
The mice in their grass-thatched runways could never be seen.
These eggs are gathered by the ants and heaped up in piles in the galleries of their nests, or sometimes in special chambers made by widening the runways here and there.
These swift, strong, brave little ants make their runways and nests all through the corn-fields, and are very devoted helpers of the soft-bodied helpless aphids.
There was a nest and a system of runways beneath the strips.
An occupied house normally has severalrunways radiating from it.
At the other end of the two runways was a group of huts built under the trees.
To be exact, the flying field really consisted of two long runways cut through the trees, and packed down firm.
The runways ran from east to west across the island, and the take-off end was blocked off by strips of painted camouflage cloth.
It is along the level of the runways that the nose does its business; and Baltook's nose forgot to be very busy, even where he sat.
And now Dusty Star knew by their busy flight that the smaller prairie folk had begun to follow the runways in their eager search for food.
Kiopo badly wanted to stop and hunt mice, but Dusty Star made him clearly understand that no loitering by the runways was possible now, and that he must keep in his place in the procession behind Osikomix and Running Wolf.
Below the level of his den went the runways of half the lower world.
All the way up the mountain path to the runways they kept the lead, occasionally stopping to rest in the shade of some great pine where chattering squirrels were quarrelling over their breakfast.
All over an area of several square miles their mounds were scattered with the holes leading down to their runways below, the dwellings of the marmot.
Everywhere we saw runways packed hard by the feet of the hares living in this bush.
Every river overflowed its banks; the swamps became impassable; all the runways of the animals turned into beds for streams of running water.
There wasn’t even a camouflaged plane in sight—nothing but those steel-mat runways dressed up to look like vegetable gardens.
It plowed the already bombed runways until the field looked like a map of the moon’s craters.
They left the runways looking like a raw, black wound in the earth, with a thick cloud of dust hanging over it.
Cement was brought to the work in cars over the tracks shown and was wheeled from the cars over runways leading to the charging platforms near each mixer.
The speed gained by avoiding confusion and delay saves many times the additional cost of runways which is small.
This anchoring of the plate to the wall permitted the diagonal bracing of the bents to be removed to allow runways to be laid on the cross-pieces, since the plate held firmly the bent post to which it was bolted as indicated by Fig.
The concrete was mixed outside the tank and was wheeled up inclines and dumped onto runways laid on the cross pieces of the bents and then loaded and wheeled to place.
In fact it is economy to employ a few extra men to arrange runways and keep them clean, because of the additional speed thus gained.
The mixing boards were placed on the surface of the ground, and wheelbarrowrunways were built up as the work progressed.
For example, in wheeling concrete to forms from a hopper fed by a bucket hoist, arrange the runways so that each man makes a circuit, passing by the form at one end and by the hopper at the other end, and goes and comes by a different route.
Other runways connecting with these platforms provided for wheeling the sand and stone to the mixers.
The concrete was taken by wheelbarrows on runways to the side walls.
The runways were placed at the proper height to permit the barrows to be emptied directly into the charging hoppers.
It is a bad case when mole traps will not catch, or corn soaked in Fowler's solution of arsenic and dropped along their runways will not finish them.
Buried in the runways there was a dearth of moles directly.
There was nothing but the green slope of the hill and the smooth runways leading to the flight strip.
Stan saw the runways flash into sight, then he saw the lead Mustangs go in with their wheels almost touching the runways.
When we locate a set of runways near a hill, we'll check.
Stan watched the flare of their exhausts as they flamed down the runways and lifted into the dark sky.
Only airports with usable runways are included in this listing.
A perfect network of trails and runways covered the grasslands, made by the cavies and other of the smaller animals that kept to the dense cover and used also by the predatory animals that preyed on them.
Specimens were captured in runways in dense grass and weeds at the edge of a corn field.
They were taken in runways in dense grass in fallow cane fields.
It is set in their narrow runways in the heavy undergrowth.
The wild hog is also often caught in pitfalls dug in therunways or in its feeding grounds.
Fully five hundred feet in diameter, the giant ship squatted massively on the runway junction, cracking and buckling the thick concreterunways under its enormous weight.
It settled gently to rest precisely in the center of the junction of the three main runways of the field, effectively tying up the transcontinental and transoceanic traffic.
On the way through the forest we had noticed small mammal runways under almost every log and, when we stood above the tree limit, the grassy slope was cut by an intricate network of tiny tunnels.
As soon as the tents were up we climbed to the grassy slope above timber line, with Heller, to set a string of traps in the vole runways and under logs and stumps in the forest.
We expected to catch some new mammals during the night, for there were great numbers of runways on the bare hillsides.
The thick trees at the base of the hills were literally alive with doves but there were few mammal runways and our traps yielded no results.
Out rushed the crowd--down the runways toward the line of cottages backing onto yards near the swamp edge, raced the quarry.
Coming back, the control assistant asked Don if he would stay until the assistant slipped across the runways to his boarding place for a ten o'clock cup of coffee and some cold lunch.
It was of no use to add further expense, increase available runways or hangars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
