How to Use tunnel in a Sentence

tunnel

1 of 2 noun

• The moles dug tunnels in the yard.
• The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain.
• But at the end of the day, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
• The project should bring the tunnel, opened in 1934, up to modern code.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• If the mice had not yet moved, the disk’s motion caused the rodents to scurry to the tunnel.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• They were driven away and led on foot through a tunnel for hours.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• Water dips in places from the roof of the tunnel, pooling below.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The dam and tunnel are scheduled to be removed later this year.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2024
• Firefighters found jackets and school bags left at the mouth of a tunnel.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• But then, of course, Abbé Faria spends most of his time digging a tunnel.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• The civilians tackle one subject on the exit ramp from the tunnel.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Customers put baby strollers in the truck's gear tunnel.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The tunnels were dark, damp and too narrow for two people to pass each other.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• Jamaica held on for the draw, and the players jumped around like victors; the French filed down the tunnel and never came back out.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• Photographing Nick Chubb carrying the Jim Brown flag out of the smoke and lights of the tunnel to start the season gave me chills.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
• There are no extra shift levers jutting out of the tunnel, no front hubs to lock, just a small switch inside the glove box.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2023
• Ray DeAutremont stood at the end of the tunnel, holding a suitcase packed with dynamite.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2023
• In one corner of the chapel, a sloping tunnel leads down to the hidden burial chamber.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• Thirty-nine people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.
  — Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• To Jacob, no matter what darkness presents itself, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
• During the Cold War, most subway tunnels were simply bricked up at the border.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some signs of carpal tunnel, per the Mayo Clinic, are wrist pain and tingling, numbness, or weakness in the hands and fingers.
  — Mara Santilli, SELF, 11 Jan. 2023
• The two ambled around then turned around, bumbling back toward the tunnel, but not before showing off the strength of their bond.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• The trains collided as the passenger train was coming out of a tunnel.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Those fish died of gas bubble disease, which happens when the pressure changes while passing through a tunnel at the base of a dam.
  — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
• The shady side sits near an office building, with two reflecting pools, a tunnel and a large tree.
  — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Last Friday’s event symbolized a light at the end of a tunnel and a dream realized.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• And as extreme weather events become more common, the public might change its mind and start to see a shining light at the end of the tunnel.
  — Nick Kasmik, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The Bears ran out of the tunnel with little to no juice and never put together any sort of momentum.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Here’s a legged robot from the winning team, shown exploring a tunnel.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023

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tunnel

2 of 2 verb

• Workers are tunneling through the hill.
• Insects had tunneled into the tree.
• The ordeal began Sunday when the pair tunneled their way out of the lockup.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Nov. 2019
• The groundhog simply tunneled under the fence and sheared off what was left of the radish stems, emerging bean sprouts, and parsnip greens.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Applying a small voltage to the STM tip makes electrons tunnel across the gap.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
• When the eggs hatch, larvae enter the leaves and begin to tunnel between the leaf surfaces.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• The drug lord escaped from prison in 2015 after a crew tunneled to retrieve him.
  — Jeremy Bagott, WSJ, 27 July 2017
• Think of the world as at once tunneled and pierced by water yet held together by it.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Core adopts unobtanium as the winking name of a substance used to build a drill to tunnel to the center of the Earth.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• The builders want to tunnel through a mountain some 700 feet below the level of the trail, which runs along the ridgetop and intertwines with the Blue Ridge Parkway.
  — Robert Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2020
• In many ways, Magic fans must feel a lot like Dufresne — the prisoner who took 17 years to tunnel his way to freedom.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• Vines not needing such grafting are rare but still exist on sandy soils, through which the louse cannot tunnel.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• To pull off the stunt, the new pals used this map tunneling tool, which tells you which part of the other side of Earth is directly below you.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2020
• The gaps between the buildings were filled in and their cellars were blown up so people could not tunnel beneath them.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2018
• The map shows 15 challenging spots where cables cross over the roadway and would need to be tunneled under the pavement.
  — Rick Kambic, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• As the larvae continue to tunnel and feed, more pitch will bleed from the tree, like what is occurring with your tree.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The streams tunneling along the ice were tinted a mint blue, a color that results from the sun hitting the water's limestone silt.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The only way out for Dickens may be to tunnel further in — to write a Christmas book in time for Christmas, which is but weeks away.
  — Beth Kephart, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• But a few issues have kept tunneling floating around in the background.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
• Then we were asked to look deeply into a spinning Optical Swirl that seemed to tunnel in and out of its spirals.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 5 June 2022
• Police said a Reading man tunneled through a wall and stole a cell phone, cell phone charger and about $5 in change from a laundromat.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• And his slider is a weapon, a late-breaking offering that is said to tunnel well with his fastball.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• More than 80 rescuers -- each working 12-hour shifts -- are on the pile at a time, listening for sounds and trying to tunnel through the wreckage.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 29 June 2021
• To tunnel under walkways, attach a pointed sluice nozzle to a length of PVC pipe.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
• Surviving birds, making their way back to the roof, got caught and tunnelled again; think Sisyphus but with bullets.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• Later, when the cicada eggs hatch, nymphs will emerge and tunnel underground to start the broods’ cycles anew.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• The swooping, bending branches that tunnel the streets are mostly oak, draped in swaths of Spanish moss.
  — Jessica Defino, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2020
• Scooping or tunneling a bagel is the practice of using a spoon to dig out a circle of the bready interior between the hole and the crust of both halves of the bagel.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• Subway is an obstacle that guests can tunnel through or climb over.
  — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
• After 13 years or 17 years, depending on their brood, the cicadas will tunnel to the surface to reach maturity and engage in a monthlong, noisy search for a mate.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024