burrow through

Frequency: 6.59.3 per million words

To make a tunnel or hole that passes from one side of something to the other.

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Examples (10)

  • The mole quickly burrowed through the soft earth of the garden.
  • Worms can burrow through dead wood, recycling nutrients back into the soil.
  • She had to burrow through piles of reports to find the data she needed.
  • Rescue workers are trying to burrow through the rubble to reach the survivors.
  • Archaeologists found evidence of insects that had burrowed through the ancient wooden beams.
  • He had to burrow through the dense crowd to get to the front of the stage.
  • The new machine will be able to burrow through solid rock much faster.
  • The powerful roots of the tree slowly burrowed through the cracks in the pavement.
  • Trapped in the snow cave, their only hope was to burrow through the drift to find an exit.
  • Burrowing through the archives was the only way the historian could uncover the truth.