burrowed

Definition of burrowednext
past tense of burrow

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowed
Verb
  • In the basement studio of the New Ballet in San Jose, a single figure crouched in a low lunge lifts his head, unfolding upwards like a flower turning toward a rising sun.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Staffers crouched with towels on the baseline spent an undue portion of the night sprinting to various corners of the United Center court, mopping up sweat off the hardwood after players from both teams had tumbled and tripped and sprawled onto the floor.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Then there’s disposal of material dredged from channels, along with equipment rental and traffic control.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The building where De Quincey and the nameless little girl huddled together under a scrap of rug and an old sofa cover has since been demolished, replaced by a Barclays bank.
    Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Puppet lovers are all huddled at the Allerton Hotel on the Magnificent Mile and traipsing off to watch shows all over the city, at venues from the Studebaker Theater to the Chopin to the Biograph.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The wall was excavated more than 230 years ago, but some 300 inscriptions etched into it remained hidden until new technologies allowed researchers to identify them.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The early reports of the murder would continue to filter out to us, to me hunched in a friend’s small office in New York while taking notes, and to her in the back of a Minneapolis store while managing diaper distribution.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The bettors sat hunched against the storm of his criticism.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Kay squatted by a monitor, bobbing his head to the beat.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Even My Dying Bride, Warning’s closest spiritual antecedent, have always couched their little-r romantic songs in a lot of big-R Romanticism—the blood, the wine, the roses, and other such gothic Byronisms.
    Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Still, some constitutional violations can also be couched as civil wrongdoings under the FTCA.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
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“Burrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowed. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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