How to Use burrow in a Sentence

burrow

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• The female digs a 6- to 10-inch-deep burrow that is ½-inch wide in the ground.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2021
• The female digs a 6- to 10-inch-deep burrow that is ½ inch wide in the ground.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• The boy had once seen a poster of a rabbit in a burrow on the wall of the school library.
  — Kate Dicamillo, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• When the eggs hatch, the new larvae burrow into the pods and start eating the seeds.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
• The female lays eggs on the leaves and the tiny larva burrow into the leave and feed inside.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• The adult tortoise's shell was lodged into the burrow's clay walls.
  — Luke Runyon, azcentral, 9 Feb. 2020
• But there was no evidence of what made the burrows and lived in them.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
• These burrows are works of art, with cozy chambers lined with grass and leaves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Then the tiny, legged-but-wingless, pale-colored young drop to the ground and burrow to find roots from which to feed.
  — Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
• Moths, on the other hand, don’t build burrows or nests and instead roost in trees and shrubs during the day.
  — WIRED, 12 June 2023
• As a result, the weather dried out the soil where crawfish burrow to lay eggs.
  — Sara Cline, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
• Ratty and Mole snug in the latter’s warm burrow on a cold winter’s night when the snow was so deep.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The male will drum or tap on the burrow to attract the female’s attention.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• The fungus managed to throw the spores, or get the spores into this burrow to infect the spider.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• Go back to your burrow and don’t take part in common action.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2019
• Instead of soybeans, the field is a graveyard of crawdads, their burrows cracking in the heat.
  — Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
• Growing to 10 feet long, the worm digs a burrow in the seafloor, leaving only its bear trap of a mouth sticking out.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
• Because its front legs are so much stronger than its back legs, it is believed to have dug and lived in burrows.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Fish flies hatch from larvae that burrow in the lake sediment for two or three years.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
• The same layers show burrows created by small creatures that lived along the shore.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• The burrow they were born in lies three miles west of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, in the suburb of Makara.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Or they could be entombed within the burrow feet below the surface.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• Print As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from their winter nests and burrows.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Larvae burrow through the winter, feeding on the bark and disrupting the flow of the tree’s nutrients.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The weird foot shape is ideal for excavating a burrow in a sand bank.
  — Laura Erickson, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2020
• Finding all the woodchuck entrances and exits to their burrows is no easy task.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Today, Gus still lives in his burrow in their backyard.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2020
• People see them most often in the fall, when 8- to 10-year-old male tarantulas leave their burrows to search for a mate.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
• The soil where crawfish burrow to lay eggs dried out leading to a dismal harvest this season.
  — Sara Cline, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
• The owls will be given food and monitored closely over the next month using cameras installed in the burrows.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024

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burrow

2 of 2 verb

• The frogs burrow under the mud.
• The rabbit burrowed into the side of the hill.
• The mole burrowed its way under the ground.
• After the eggs hatch, the nymphs drop to the ground, burrow in the soil, and the whole 17-year process starts again.
  — Scott Horner, The Courier-Journal, 18 June 2021
• The nymphs will crawl out of the tree branches and fling themselves to the ground and burrow down.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 3 May 2021
• Those nymphs will fall to the soil and burrow up to a foot and a half deep to begin the process again.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
• Then the adults die, the eggs hatch, the nymphs fall to the ground and burrow back into the earth, starting the cycle again.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2021
• Eggs laid in tree branches hatch, and the nymphs fall and burrow into the ground.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, Science | AAAS, 1 June 2021
• Pets can curl and burrow into the donut bed thanks to its round shape.
  — Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2021
• Set the lizard-like creature down to burrow into the damp earth.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• By July the adults will be gone, and the nymphs will start falling to the ground to burrow into the soil.
  — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2021
• Fisher said sea stars live burrowed in the sand along the shore, in the surf zone and beyond.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• If the soil under rocks and logs is cool and moist enough, worms don’t need to burrow.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 25 Apr. 2023
• The young then find rocks and crevasses to burrow down into and hide.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
• Those are leaf miners, which burrow through the leaves.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
• Some prepared to burrow in and wait it out, hoping for the best.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The larvae hatch and then burrow between the top and bottom layer of the leaf.
  — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2022
• The female mite burrows into the skin in areas like between the fingers, in the wrist area, and in the armpit.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
• After a pair of cicadas mate and the female lays eggs in the tree, the nymphs drop out and burrow into the ground.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 12 May 2021
• The female mite burrows into the skin in areas like between the fingers, in the wrist area, and the armpit.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• Small animals such as voles can burrow through it to feed on the bark.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• This is a once-in-17-years event where the insects burrow out of the ground, molt, reproduce and then die.
  — David J. Smith, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• The sides of the bed are furry and soft, which our dogs loved burrowing their heads into.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• And six to ten weeks later, the eggs will hatch and tiny nymphs will fall to the ground, burrow into the soil and begin their own 17-year wait.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• At some point on his ride, at least one black-legged tick burrowed into his skin.
  — Time, 28 July 2023
• Ibrahim yelled, and a rescue crew burrowed down from the roof toward the family.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• In the wild, African penguins make nests by burrowing and lining their nest with leaves, sticks and rocks.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• Though its gnarled blades stand only a few inches tall, its roots burrow down four to six feet.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• However, severe drought and extreme heat in 2023 made the ground too dry for crawfish to burrow and lay eggs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024
• Only this past year, many crawfish were killed off by the heat or were forced to burrow deeper to survive, farmers and experts said.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024

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