Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowed
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The lake was fully dredged in 1946 and partially dredged in 1970.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
20 July 2025 -
The maitake mushroom is no longer dredged in flour.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
Verb
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Dutton’s wife and children crouched down on the floor of the car, but Dutton’s oldest son, 7 years old, was hysterical and kept trying to crawl out of the car.—
Sally Ventura
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Officers then discovered the man, who was identified as Gamboa, with a minor gunshot wound, crouched down among a small group of people.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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Researchers enlisted by the school have only excavated a small section of the tunnel system so far.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
15 June 2026
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After months of scandal and speculation, and several weeks of extended reunion unpacking, the sordid mess of Summer House season ten has been excavated.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
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Inside a 32,000 square foot modular home factory filled with the sounds of construction, high school student June Baker and her teacher Darrin Rassmusen huddled over blueprints trying to figure out what went wrong with a drywall installation.—
Sam Fuqua,
NPR,
11 Dec. 2025
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Johnson huddled with Scott and Lee in a Senate hideaway after their meeting with Thune and joined them later on Wednesday for another meeting with the majority leader in his Capitol office.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Dec. 2025
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Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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There was, for example, the fellow who sat hunched forward in a folding camp chair on the shore of a Wyoming lake where my family and I paused with our camper one summer.—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
Verb
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Beneath it, a man squatted on the pavement, staring at nothing in particular, a glass pipe drooping from his fingers.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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The emu father squatted on eggs to keep them warmon Thursday evening.—
Larry Seward,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Pezeshkian began making more concrete proposals this year, though often couched with the sentiment that the situation could change.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Nov. 2025
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Sometimes the case for war’s inevitability is couched in expressions of rue and reluctance.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Burrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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