Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow (into)
Verb
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First, carve a wide mouth out of the top of a large gourd and then thoroughly hollow it out.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Rising rents, gentrification, and the pressure of tourism have hollowed many of them out.—
Clarissa Wei,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite talk of using nukes to carve a second Panama Canal or excavate Alaskan ports, public concern over radiation and international treaties ultimately shut the program down.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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Only then will the researchers begin to excavate using a hydraulic dredge.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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When an autopsy was conducted on Campbell, it was discovered that seven of the 11 stab wounds penetrated her heart.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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The formulation is meant to create scaffold-like structures that wrap around strands and penetrate the hair cuticle and cortex for inside-out protection and repair.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The teams split the first two games in Toronto.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Earlier surveys reflected similar divisions, underscoring a community sharply split over his candidacy.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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At least the climactic pandemonium has some of that old REC intensity; Plaza dynamically orchestrates the violence, dazzling the eyes of his audience one minute, gouging the eyes of his characters the next.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Ella’s son is now 7 and sometimes traipses downstairs to gouge his grandparents’ cereal collection.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
2 Oct. 2025
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And people are grooving, people are dancing, people are moving, people are touching, people are feeling, people are smiling, and that's a good feeling.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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The same can be said about the music video for the song, where the members put their acting skills to the test and move and groove through a red carpet.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There’s a persistent myth on the internet that the pressure from the plates used in mammograms could rupture, shift or crush implants—the procedure involves having plates and pressure applied to the chest—but the radiologists say this is not true.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
28 Oct. 2025
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Any aneurysm has the potential to rupture, which can lead to serious complications such as stroke, brain injury, coma or death.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The next morning, when Morse arrived for work, Nicholson stabbed her repeatedly and slit her throat before placing her body inside a large plastic bin in the kitchen pantry, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The lawsuit is filed against Gary Lansky, the man who authorities allege slit the throat of 8-year-old Saida Mashrah at a Detroit Park last October.—
Andrea May Sahouri,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Burrow (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow%20%28into%29. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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