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How to use the word tunnels in a Sentence?

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I am clear that anyone willing to risk dying, starving or even being raped in the long journey through desert, cold and tunnels is crossing because they feel like there is no other solution to their situation. Their migration is the only way they see themselves and loved ones surviving deep poverty and, in some cases, persecution, my mother wouldn’t have risked my life or hers had it not been the only option she saw for her unborn child to have a chance at a life and childhood better than hers.

Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were really put in very extreme situations, crawling through very tight tunnels, i've had my butt stuck, I've had my head stuck and it's a challenge not to panic -- but also, you learn a lot about yourself and inner strength in those conditions.

Keneiloe Molopyane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The cartels are adaptive as long as there's the demand here in the United States for the drugs they're going to figure out a way to do it. They’re going under the border, there's tunnels going under this town that have been there for 100 years. … They'll get ultralight airplanes and fly over, they'll go through the commercial ports of entry, but the most volume of the drugs goes right through the legal commercial ports of entry.

Sheriff Hathaway

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s unique, there are a few tunnels around the Alton area since we checked with theLandmark Historic Society, it’s been used as an icehouse or root cellar or a lot of other options. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Some people have also theorized that the tunnel may have played an important part in the nation’s history.

Gary Machens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Haunted car wash tunnels are COVID-friendly, you know, nobodys actually coming to touch you, grab you, or anything. Youre in your car, throughout the whole process, youre sitting in your car.

Mittel Patel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You have no evidence of (the submarine's) combat readiness, operational response times and availability, tunnels blind potential opponents to the submarines' operating status and patterns, denying them the ability to determine the state of China's military preparations, knowledge critical to assessing China's intentions and plans.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In my intelligence work I assisted with Operation Desert Storm, helped to locate secret tunnels in North Korea, and used my skills to erase crucial diplomatic discs on their way to Moscow.

Uri Geller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We tried to apply everything, we pulled out our troops, we destroyed our tunnels but unfortunately the United States did not keep their promises.

Mustafa Bali

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They are obviously extremely disappointed with this. we tried to apply everything, we pulled out our troops, we destroyed our tunnels but unfortunately the United States did not keep their promises.

Mustafa Bali

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These individuals that have chosen to take refuge in the tunnels, they're human beings, empathy and compassion, as well as a realistic and working solution, is what's called for in this situation.

Louis Lacey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

ISIS fighters have been using suicide vests and car bombs to slow down the SDF offensive and hide from Coalition strikes in the area of Baghouz, they still hold civilians and are lacing the tunnels with IEDs (improvised explosive devices) as well.

Colonel Sean Ryan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One of the tunnels discovered goes back 13 years.

Hassan Nasrallah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Kim Jong Un on Kim Jong part did everything Kim Jong promised to do, even blew up some tunnels on North Koreans sites and after North Koreans hear the US canceling the meeting.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Kim Jong Un on Kim Jong part did everything Kim Jong promised to do, even blew up some tunnels on their sites and after this we hear the US is canceling the meeting.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They took us to three of the four tunnels on the site. They allowed us to open us the tunnel doors, take a look inside, we couldn't actually step into the tunnels, as far as the eye could see, they were rigged with explosives.

Will Ripley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

North Korean officials also showed us two additional tunnels they said have never been used before and were until today ready to conduct a high-powered nuclear test at any moment, this, North Korea say, is evidence of North Korean officials commitment to transparency to denuclearization ahead of the planned summit in Singapore.

Will Ripley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

North Korea have conducted all these tests here, every single weapons test, so if they let experts in to look at these tunnels before they let anyone else in North Korea would be potentially for us an intelligence boon.

Bruce Bechtol

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If it's done well, there is no risk of radiation being released. But the question is, are these tunnels being sealed in a way that they couldn't again be used?

Jon Wolfsthal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's nicer of him than saying 'I'm going to continue testing.' But they are just tunnels in the mountain. You can seal them, but you can just open them back up.

Jeffrey Lewis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Just over the last year alone, UNRWA officials were elected to the leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA schools denied the existence of Israel, and terror tunnels were dug under UNRWA facilities, it is time for this absurdity to end and for humanitarian funds to be directed towards their intended purpose -- the welfare of refugees.

Danny Danon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They dig terror tunnels and have launched thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. Schools and mosques run by Hamas teach children that Jews are apes and pigs. This is the real Hamas.

David Keyes

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Daily, Hamas leaders call for genocide of all Jews and the destruction of Israel. They dig terror tunnels and have launched thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. Schools and mosques run by Hamas teach children that Jews are apes and pigs. This is the real Hamas.

David Keyes

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Hamas is attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed, daily, Hamas leaders call for genocide of all Jews and the destruction of Israel. They dig terror tunnels and have launched thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. Schools and mosques run by Hamas teach children that Jews are apes and pigs. This is the real Hamas.

David Keyes

Found on CNN
6 years ago

As ISIS-K's losses have mounted, Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces defense, this is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces offensive against ISIS-K.

Gen John Nicholson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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