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Recent Examples of burrow
Noun
That's right, some Ford vehicles could be able to dig soon, like the Pokémon move that allows users to burrow into the ground.—Charles Singh, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025 The South American swamp rodents also burrow holes in levees, posing a threat to the state’s flood-control and water-supply infrastructure.—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
While temperatures on the surface rise and fall throughout the day, peaking in the heat of the afternoon and then cooling down in the nighttime, the temperature inside a burrow remains relatively constant.—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Still, they're named for their habit of using crayfish burrows that are mostly abandoned.—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for burrow
According to computer simulations, these differences appeared to help lower disease transmission, reducing the risk of the fungal pathogen breaching the entire nest.
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NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
The chimney sweep will identify whether your chimney requires cleaning to remove creosote build-up, animal nests, or debris.
Allsup, crouched in a small crate, looked quietly apprehensive.
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Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
In the nearly two-minute preview, fans get a glimpse at how present her now-fiancé was behind the scenes, at one point crouching underneath the stage and grinning wide as the pop star bends down and kisses him on the cheek.
Usually, the question was couched in politeness, but my students (bless them) had not yet learned to be subtle.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Particularly dangerous is that some of this language has been couched in religious terms, which turns political conflicts into identity ones that are far more difficult to resolve.
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Darren Kew,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Earlier in the day, Kardashian was spotted attending the All's Fair premiere in Paris wearing a baby blue vintage Dior by John Galliano gown from the house's Spring/Summer 2000 collection.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Seriously, the answers are like, not all that far from her house.
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