Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowing (into)
Verb
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Two robots can be seen grooving to a light dance routine.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025 -
The event is recognized as one of the top music festivals in the South, but Standard Deluxe is grooving all year long with a calendar full of concerts.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Writing is an iceberg sort of art form where only 10% of the work ends up on the page; the other 90% includes excavating each character’s backstory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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But figuring out what’s excavating without your permission isn’t straightforward.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Mars in Scorpio is about penetrating truth, radical courage, and relentless clarity.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
21 Sep. 2025
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The tannins in coffee are very good at penetrating porous ceramic (as well as our teeth) and leaving behind ugly brown stains.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
20 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Time for the city to stop gouging us and start being more responsible with taxpayer money.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Sep. 2025
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The residency’s first nine shows were only available to Puerto Rico residents, and when tickets went on sale in January, the prices for all shows ranged between $35 and $250, a rarity in an era of concert price-gouging and Ticketmaster wars.—
Maya Rosenberg,
NBC news,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Chase Infiniti’s breakout performance has generated significant word-of-mouth but positioning her in lead leaves more room for co-stars Teyana Taylor and Regina Hall in supporting roles, and less of a chance of a classic vote-splitting dilemma that has derailed campaigns in the past.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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The two dated for only a few months before splitting sometime in 2024.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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For Paul, campaigning to reelect Massie is a clear opportunity to emphasize some of his breaks with Trump while praising some of the president’s other actions, like moving to dismantle the Education Department or slashing foreign aid.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The sheer magnitude of the cuts—including a 40 percent slashing of money going to the National Institutes of Health—would do severe harm to biomedical researchers and the industries that serve or rely on them.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Some are discontinuing various product lines, and others are cutting workers or closing altogether.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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The bass is a hard thing to really get cutting, but also representing the bottom.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Research by John Gottman and colleagues shows that the most stable couples are those who can repair quickly after a rupture, within three minutes of a conflict, to be precise, so as to pre-emptively stop the conflict from rupturing into an uncontrollable one.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Neymar, 33, is Brazil’s all-time leading goalscorer but has not appeared for his national team since October 2023, when he was substituted against Uruguay after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus in his left knee.—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Burrowing (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowing%20%28into%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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