[ US /ˈbɝoʊ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌɹə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
VERB
  1. move through by or as by digging
    burrow through the forest
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How To Use burrow In A Sentence

  • A related species, the burrowing bettong, will scavenge sheep carcasses.
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  • Mother turtles burrow into the sand to lay their eggs.
  • Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
  • He blew on the small cuts for a moment, then burrowed back underneath the blankets to resume his interrupted sleep.
  • They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation. Walden
  • They burrow into the rock and support shafts with branches and twigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
  • I've burrowed like a bunny to a funkhole in the ground. THE SLEEPER CUTTERS' CAMP
  • The worst possible explanation is that some new, previously unknown viral disease has found its way into the burrows and is now taking a grip. Times, Sunday Times
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