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Tunneled

Tunnel \Tun"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tunneledor Tunnelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tunneling or Tunnelling.]

  1. To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
    --Derham.

  2. To catch in a tunnel net.

  3. To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.

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tunneled

vb. (context US English) (en-past of: tunnel)

Usage examples of "tunneled".

Her hands found his hair, tunneled her fingers deep into the mass of silken strands.

Had there been more time, Volney might have tunneled down and made a closed-off chamber that would survive the torrent dry.

To his shock, Rachael turned back, gingerly, carefully, and tunneled her fingers in his hair.

His fingers tunneled in her hair, fisted there to hold her to him while he kissed her voraciously.

She smiled, murmured something incoherent and tunneled her fingers in his hair.

Her fingers tunneled in his hair, her teeth nibbled his ear, his shoulder, anything she could reach.

The tunneled stairwell was so narrow and low that he had trouble making his way up.

Those steps twisted and tunneled and turned ever downward, following the natural shape of the tiers of rock, sometimes following around soaring natural stone columns, only to spiral back on themselves to pass underneath the pathway bridging above.

The place looked somehow alive, as if it were watching them approach the gaping entrance of arched stone where the road tunneled under the base of the outer wall.

Beyond, the road tunneled through another dark wall that provided a second barrier, should one ever be necessary.

Time slowed, tunneled, as Byron dissolved into molecules, to materialize once again in between Paul and Antonietta.

The world narrowed and curved until his vision tunneled and the room was gone.