rabbit warren

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Origin of rabbit warren

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby rabbit warren

rabbit-proof fence, rabbit punch, rabbitry, rabbit's foot, rabbit's-foot fern, rabbit warren, rabble, rabblement, rabble-rouse, rabble-rouser, rabble-rousing

How to use rabbit warren in a sentence

Most of Broadway’s houses are operational antiques, with age-old ventilation systems, narrow backstages and suites of dressing rooms that resemble rabbit warrens.
How Broadway is working to ensure covid doesn’t bring the curtain down again|Peter Marks|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
On their way back to the boat they collected a great quantity of eggs, and came upon a rabbit warren.
Condemned as a Nihilist|George Alfred Henty
And, for the same reason, he avoided treading on freshly excavated earth before the holes of a rabbit warren.
Creatures of the Night|Alfred W. Rees
The pullulating population of Tokyo seemed to have emptied itself, like a rabbit warren, into the streets.
Lafcadio Hearn|Nina H. Kennard

I looked down from the roof this morning on Phari town, lying like a rabbit-warren beneath the fort.
The Unveiling of Lhasa|Edmund Candler
The mind of the little priest was always a rabbit-warren of wild thoughts that jumped too quickly for him to catch them.
The Wisdom of Father Brown|G. K. Chesterton