Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowed
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Jones’ wife Marie came out to the mound for the first pitch with daughters Jami and Staci, who threw the ball to Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman crouched behind the plate.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in Chicago on September 26, was crouched behind a van when an agent took aim from a safe perch behind a chain link fence.—
Bob Ortega,
CNN Money,
10 Mar. 2026
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The company also dredged the Batiquitos Lagoon at the border of Carlsbad and Encinitas in the winter of 2023 to maintain a restoration completed there in the mid-1990s.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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After a bipartisan group of senators huddled on the Senate floor, one Democrat left the talks shaking his head, saying he was frustrated at the state of negotiations.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Twin Lakes also stand out, huddled in their alpine embrace and flanked by proud granite slopes.—
Madison Chapman,
Outside,
25 Mar. 2026
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As an anthropology major, her first job was working on Howard’s African Burial Ground project as an osteological technical assistant doing skeletal analysis of the 490 full human remains that were excavated in lower Manhattan.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2026
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Along University Avenue, land has been excavated for a new boutique hotel, which is in the process of gaining its structural footings.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
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His skin looks all messed up and he's hunched over in pain, hearing noises.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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Balancing a MacBook Pro precariously on a cement rail, Villareal hunched over the machine and scrolled through lines of code.—
Rachel Swan,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
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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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Many of those Mexicans saw their property squatted on or seized by the courts of their new nation.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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One associate dean couched the misstep as a result of learning pains tied to the adoption of new technology.—
Emily Hodgson Anderson,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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And no matter what anyone does to look younger, Miller wants women to stop with the negative self-talk about aging that’s often couched in seemingly harmless jokes.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Burrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowed. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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