Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a tunnel.

Etymologies

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tunnel +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The road was narrow, winding tunnellike between hills that towered into the clear, empty sky.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • And Harry was hurtling back out of those wide, tunnellike pupils and Gregorovitch's face was stricken with terror.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • As he stepped into the tunnellike entry, he raised his own shields with as much strength as he could offer them.

    Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • He descended all the way down to the basement level and walked out into another tunnellike corridor, past a well-stocked wine cellar, dust covering great tankards of the finest Boacan brandy.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • He descended all the way down to the basement level and walked out into another tunnellike corridor, past a well-stocked wine cellar, dust covering great tankards of the finest Boacan brandy.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • It led to a dark tunnellike hall, and a rickety wooden stair that wound up and down through the palace—obviously a stair for servants.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • It led to a dark tunnellike hall, and a rickety wooden stair that wound up and down through the palace—obviously a stair for servants.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • He descended all the way down to the basement level and walked out into another tunnellike corridor, past a well-stocked wine cellar, dust covering great tankards of the finest Boacan brandy.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • It led to a dark tunnellike hall, and a rickety wooden stair that wound up and down through the palace—obviously a stair for servants.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • The kyree family that had gratefully traded this aerie for the dark tunnellike series of rooms pronounced themselves overjoyed to be leaving such a drafty, windswept perch, and had wondered why their parents had ever chosen it!

    The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

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