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Example sentences for "tunneled"

Lexicographically close words:
tunics; tuning; tunnage; tunne; tunnel; tunneling; tunnelled; tunnellers; tunnelling; tunnels
  1. Then making a turn to the left, we entered a better road that tunneled away through the trees.

  2. Had the Cossacks-- The road tunneled through a vista of trees.

  3. The way to the side gate was shut off unless they tunneled through this drift.

  4. Later the girls tunneled through the great drift at the back porch, leaving a thick arch which remained for the rest of the week.

  5. Some times it was full of "skippers," that tunneled their way through and through it, and grew fat with riotous living.

  6. The officers always got the softest rails to sleep on, the hardtack that was least tunneled through by the worms, the bacon that had the fewest maggots, and the biggest trees in a fight.

  7. The men have tunneled through the drift from one car to the other.

  8. It seemed a little lighter under the tunneled snow-bank between the two cars, and the conductor said, with some satisfaction: "I believe it has stopped snowing and will clear up.

  9. Tunneled in that aisle of greenery Varick and Bab were alone, alone indeed.

  10. Speeding along, it turned a bend in the wood's tunneled greenery.

  11. Through one of these, they tunneled to Mine No.

  12. When he had tunneled into the bank ten or twelve feet and hurriedly arranged some blocks for closing the opening, he raced to the back of the mine for his sled.

  13. The galleries, which are tunneled in tiers along the north front of the Rock, are from two to three miles in extent.

  14. That canal was sixty feet wide, with steep cliffs rising sheer to a wonderful system of German machine-gun redoubts and tunneled defenses, between the villages of Bellicourt and Bellinglis.

  15. These were the hardest positions to attack, because of the rising ground and the immense strength of the enemy's earthworks and tunneled defenses.

  16. In its tunneled ways German soldiers hid and came out to fight our men in the rear long after the site of the farm was in our hands.

  17. In many of the tunneled shelters there was food enough, but the water could not be sent up.

  18. A platform elevator is the mode of access to the tunneled portion below, and a free shower-bath is included in the descent; consequently, a rubber-coat and water tight boots are necessary.

  19. It has been encountered since in small quantities, and it would do well to look out for it in the fresh tunneled portion after the date appended to this paper.

  20. He mustered a corps of engineers who had helped drill the great railway tunnels on the Swiss frontier and under his direction they tunneled right through the mountain into the Austrian galleries on the reverse slope.

  21. British trenches had been driven close to this hill by the Bedfords, whose sappers tunneled under the mound and there prepared three mines.

  22. The Indians said they left the Sewall gun in the tunneled sand-hills, wrapped up in a blanket with the two scalp-locks they had taken from Sewall.

  23. From here we went to, and explored, the tunneled sand-hills.

  24. One of the richest wild gardens I know is a bare, open spot in a cottonwood grove, part of it tunneled by ants, which run over it by millions, and the rest a jumble of bowlders and wild rosebushes, impossible to describe.

  25. The energy and thought that had been bestowed upon this little matter of avoiding a gate-hook would have built a bridge across Salt Lake, or tunneled the Uintas for an irrigating ditch.

  26. Once he tunneled his way out of the camp, only to be recaptured and punished.

  27. These people have tunneled beneath the meteor.

  28. They were now on the other side of the chasm in the tunneled volcano.

  29. He tunneled clear over it with extreme caution.

  30. The boys turned sharply to the left, and tunneled cautiously along for ten or twelve feet through the pitch blackness.

  31. We dug the snow away from our windows and tunneled a hole to the top which gave us a glare of reflected light.

  32. We worked for hours, in silence and darkness, digging our way through the snow and shoveling it back into the cabin as we tunneled toward the cliff.

  33. But when we had tunneled through the snow to near the entrance of the mine, we found our way blocked by a debris of rock and trees which would require weeks of labor to remove.

  34. We wound around among many hills, and tunneled many mountains.

  35. A well-built wall surrounds the brow of the precipice on all sides, and the only two places of entrance are through arches tunneled in the solid rock from the side of the precipice to the level within.

  36. The effect of this, when we ran through the tunneled archway and came out into a great square, was curious.

  37. I found myself, somehow or other, at the entrance to the tunneled passage.

  38. The snow bank was an old one and the rushing waters of spring had tunneled under it, while it melted from above, so that a heavy roof of blue ice stretched across the ravine from side to side.

  39. But we have tunneled the mountains; we have bridged the rivers; we have tamed the oceans.


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