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Examples of tunnel in a Sentence
The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain.
The moles dug tunnels in the yard.
Recent Examples of tunnel from the Web
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So the Tigers were forced back into the batting tunnels, which one player said was way colder than the temperature on the field.
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In New York City, Metropolitan Transportation Authority bridge-and-tunnel police and the State Police use license-plate readers to identify and stop vehicles whose registrations have been suspended for persistent toll violations.
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Akron's massive tunnel boring machine, the centerpiece of city's $1.4 billion sewer project known as Akron Waterways Renewed!, is digging the Ohio Canal Intercept Tunnel (OCIT) through downtown.
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The event began with the special needs students and volunteers running through the 'Code Red' football helmet tunnel that the football players run through before a game.
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The Portal North Bridge, like the existing Hudson tunnels, is more than 100 years old and was never meant to handle today’s commuter traffic.
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The path traveled through a tunnel of brush on its way south of town, earning its fanciful nickname.
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Both options have complications; the 60 route runs through a Superfund site, while the southern route may require a nearly three-mile long subway tunnel, a very expensive addition.
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As Alister Doyle reports for Reuters, the upgrades, which will cost around $13 million, will include construction of a concrete access tunnel, a service building for emergency power and refrigerating units and other electrical equipment.
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Origin and Etymology of tunnel
First Known Use: 1508
in the meaning defined at sense 2
See Words from the same yearDefinition of tunnel
- electrons tunneling through an insulator between semiconductors
Examples of tunnel in a Sentence
Workers are tunneling through the hill.
Insects had tunneled into the tree.
Recent Examples of tunnel from the Web
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The drug lord escaped from prison in 2015 after a crew tunneled to retrieve him.
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The streams tunneling along the ice were tinted a mint blue, a color that results from the sun hitting the water's limestone silt.
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While Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be known as a visionary for dreaming of rockets to Mars or tunneling under cities, his latest idea is downright retro.
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It is designed to ensure that Musk — a serial entrepreneur who also leads rocket maker SpaceX and tunneling startup the Boring Co. — doesn’t leave Tesla, which has come to rely on him as its public face.
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But routing, setting aside time for community meetings and environmental clearances, as well as tunneling the darn thing could take well over a decade.
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The Explorium Brewpub wants to tunnel its way to your heart with decadent stouts and porters, part of A Special Valentine Behind the Brew at Brew City MKE, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave.
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Police said a Reading man tunneled through a wall and stole a cell phone, cell phone charger and about $5 in change from a laundromat.
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But under our feet, there’s still plenty of space, and large boring machines tunneling under major metropolises, already being put into practice by Elon Musk, will make infrastructure build-out underground relatively fast and cost-effective.
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First Known Use of tunnel
1795
TUNNEL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of tunnel for English Language Learners
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: a passage that goes under the ground, through a hill, etc.
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