Word Image
plural: tunnels
Part Of Speech
noun, verb
Word Meaning
noun: a passage under the ground
verb: to make a tunnel
Word Family
tunneled
tunneling
tunneler
tunnellike
Sentences
The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain.
Worker ants are tunneling through the ant farm.
The moles dug so many tunnels in the yard!
Different bark beetles tunnel beneath the bark and lay eggs.
Termites had tunneled into the wood framing of the house.
At the end of the day, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
The tunnels were dark, damp, and too narrow for two people to pass each other.
The subway runs through underground tunnel systems.
There are giant tunneling machines that bore through solid rock.
The groundhog simply tunneled under the fence and was eating everything in the garden.
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