How to Use tunnel in a Sentence

tunnel

1 of 2 noun
  • The moles dug tunnels in the yard.
  • The train goes through a tunnel in the mountain.
  • So where will the new tunnel land?
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • There is hope at the end of the tunnel.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • The tunnel and the pre-camp speech.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2026
  • Any light at the end of the tunnel on that?
    — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Voles feed and tunnel day and night.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Voles feed and tunnel day and night.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
  • Each tunnel may take up to a month’s worth of work.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 June 2026
  • Each tunnel may take up to a month’s worth of work.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There’s light at the end of the tunnel, for sure.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Walk through a tunnel of sharks and swirling schools.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In this tunnel’s end, there’s no light.
    — Will Swaim, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • Down labyrinthine tunnels of pages, of words, of self.
    — Leila Chatti september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To both of their alarm, the train stopped in a dark tunnel.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • There are just too many weird things to share about those tunnels.
    — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
  • And there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a Lux at the end of the tunnel.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The tunnels at Ames are more than just tools.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That's about 30 feet of tunnel a day.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • But at the end of the day, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Jazz can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Most people do not talk about the tunnel.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Hamas kept him below ground in a tunnel.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps in the tunnel in the dark.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • They were driven away and led on foot through a tunnel for hours.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There's light at the end of the tunnel, like always.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • What’s the best hand massager for carpal tunnel to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For an early start, sow seeds in a cold frame or in grow tunnels.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2026

tunnel

2 of 2 verb
  • Workers are tunneling through the hill.
  • Insects had tunneled into the tree.
  • Bare walls give hallways a tunnel-like look.
    — Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 7 June 2026
  • There, roots tunnel many meters down.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Think of the world as at once tunneled and pierced by water yet held together by it.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Subway is an obstacle that guests can tunnel through or climb over.
    — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
  • But a few issues have kept tunneling floating around in the background.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
  • From tunneling to soot stains, here’s how to fix the most common candle problems.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
  • Different bark beetles tunnel beneath the bark and lay eggs.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The ordeal began Sunday when the pair tunneled their way out of the lockup.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2019
  • When the eggs hatch, larvae enter the leaves and begin to tunnel between the leaf surfaces.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
  • And his slider is a weapon, a late-breaking offering that is said to tunnel well with his fastball.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • As his vision began to tunnel and his limbs lost sensation, a tugboat passed.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The gaps between the buildings were filled in and their cellars were blown up so people could not tunnel beneath them.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Another thing that can shorten the life of your candle is tunneling.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • Walk around your house, checking the foundation for small cracks or openings where mice or other pests can tunnel in.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Musk claims that his boring machines will tunnel faster than the industry's best machines.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2018
  • The groundhog simply tunneled under the fence and sheared off what was left of the radish stems, emerging bean sprouts, and parsnip greens.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • As the larvae continue to tunnel and feed, more pitch will bleed from the tree, like what is occurring with your tree.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Less than an inch long, ips beetles tunnel beneath a tree’s bark, eventually killing them.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The drug lord escaped from prison in 2015 after a crew tunneled to retrieve him.
    — Jeremy Bagott, WSJ, 27 July 2017
  • The idea is that electrons will tunnel from the plates to the electrodes but not tunnel in the reverse direction.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • There’s just something about tunneling your escape, avoiding guards and searchlights, that just feels cool.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Teams also continued to tunnel into the site and dogs, sonar and cameras were deployed.
    — NBC News, 26 June 2021
  • And firefighters also used a garage beneath the building to tunnel in from below.
    — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • Other task force members expect to spend much of their time cutting and tunneling through concrete.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • Borers tunnel and weave through branches, leaving holes and open wounds as evidence of their travels.
    — Emily Leahy, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • Later, when the cicada eggs hatch, nymphs will emerge and tunnel underground to start the broods’ cycles anew.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The swooping, bending branches that tunnel the streets are mostly oak, draped in swaths of Spanish moss.
    — Jessica Defino, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The spirit tunnel, as the talk show has dubbed it, features crew members singing and clapping as guests on the show walk down a hallway to the set.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025

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