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  • noun Plural form of warren.

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Examples

  • The warrens were a gigantic labyrinth of passageways and grottoes wherein huge fields of fungus and mold, the staple foods of the subterranean dwarf, grew in great abun - dance.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • The warrens were a gigantic labyrinth of passageways and grottoes wherein huge fields of fungus and mold, the staple foods of the subterranean dwarf, grew in great abun - dance.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • He kept his voice level and added a smile at his use of the word 'warrens'.

    Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • I reached into the bush, the brush, the depths of warrens and dens, commanding them to come.

    Rites of Passage « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The scam artists keep wanting to concentrate people into rabbit warrens, slicing the pie ever thinner and raising taxes to satisfy their own sick avarice.

    Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola 2010

  • I walked around the neon warrens of the West End -- through the theater-throngs, and past the fancy fashion stores - with two volunteers from the charity the Simon Community.

    Johann Hari: The Conservative Assault on the Homeless Johann Hari 2011

  • I walked around the neon warrens of the West End -- through the theater-throngs, and past the fancy fashion stores - with two volunteers from the charity the Simon Community.

    Johann Hari: The Conservative Assault on the Homeless Johann Hari 2011

  • Even the subterranean warrens heard the distant sounds and rang the hour.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

  • I walked around the neon warrens of the West End -- through the theater-throngs, and past the fancy fashion stores - with two volunteers from the charity the Simon Community.

    Johann Hari: The Conservative Assault on the Homeless Johann Hari 2011

  • Athsheans Ursula K Le Guin's eco-adapted aliens in The Word for World Is Forest live in warrens under the roots of trees on the thoroughly soggy planet of Athshe.

    Ten of the best 2011

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