It snows throughout the winter in Jozankei, and it gets so deep, the people tunnel under the immovable drifts. Deeper and deeper he dug, following the tunnel into the bank. A stationary engine was used for the final haul up the tunnel into St Leonards Goods Yard. 
A cave brings this psychic tunnel into physical reality. In the film Batman Returns a horde of large black bats swarmed through flooded tunnels into downtown Gotham. Three months later, investigators discovered the start of another tunnel under a trailer used for psychological treatment. After days of digging, the prisoners finally tunnelled their way out of the camp and escaped. They may watch the sand shifting as they tunnel their hands into it. Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed. They had tunnelled down into the plateau, and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow. Special drilling equipment is being used to tunnel beneath the sea bed. → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus tunnel 2 if insects tunnel into something, they make holes in it tunnel into The grubs tunnel into the wood. tunnel your way under/through etc The prisoners tunneled their way under the fence. Related topics: Engineering tunnel tunnel 2 verb ( tunnelled, tunnelling British English, tunneled, tunneling American English ) 1 TE DIG to dig a long passage under the ground tunnel into/through/under They were tunnelling into the mountainside. About eighteen people escaped from this tunnel and they were not all recaptured until four days later. Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes. The construction works on the tunnel would disrupt one of the colony's main breeding grounds. 
A rock dam was erected to keep bat fans out of the tunnel.
TUNNEL VISION MEANING SERIES
Police feared that du Pont might try to flee through a series of tunnels beneath the house. Irrigation tunnels of water ran beside the beds and not far from small thatched-roof houses. Over the next few hours, faces and figures passed like the tableaux of a funhouse tunnel. a tunnel leads somewhere The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the River Thames. 
build a tunnel The contractors will start building the tunnel next month. verbs dig a tunnel Burglars had dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid. the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel. phrases the roof of a tunnel The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head. a rail/railway tunnel the 15km long Gotthard railway tunnel a road tunnel a road tunnel through the mountains the Channel Tunnel (=the tunnel under the sea between England and France ) They went by train via the Channel Tunnel. an underground tunnel The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel. a narrow tunnel She ran down the narrow tunnel leading to the exit. a dark tunnel He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform. W3 noun 1 TT a passage that has been dug under the ground for cars, trains etc to go through a railway tunnel the Channel Tunnel (=between England and France ) 2 HBA HOLE a passage under the ground that animals have dug to live in COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + tunnel a two-mile/1500-foot-long etc tunnel A 250-metre-long tunnel provides access to all parts of the development.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Transport tunnel tun‧nel 1 / ˈtʌnl /
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