Examples of eyehole in a Sentence
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There is little to distinguish the last two; the only significant difference is the Secutor’s helmet, which had no plumed crest, and a visor with eyeholes, not a grille.
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Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Nicholas Braun’s Cousin Greg, vomiting out of a theme park costume’s eyeholes?
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
What’s provocative is not simply the portrayal of Klansmen, simplified to little more than lumpy white triangles with skinny black rectangles for eyeholes.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
The buttons felt well-made too, and their eyeholes held them nicely in place without any fraying.
—Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
The images attack too quickly for style to be processed, like medicinal sea worms that dive straight through the eyeholes and into the brain.
—Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Arredondo-Brock’s piece really opens up when one looks inside the eyeholes of the mask and sees a stream of words in the form of thought bubbles that have been created inside.
—Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
Will Cousin Greg throw up out of the eyeholes of a children’s costume again?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2019
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Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Nicholas Braun’s Cousin Greg, vomiting out of a theme park costume’s eyeholes?
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
What’s provocative is not simply the portrayal of Klansmen, simplified to little more than lumpy white triangles with skinny black rectangles for eyeholes.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
The buttons felt well-made too, and their eyeholes held them nicely in place without any fraying.
—Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
The images attack too quickly for style to be processed, like medicinal sea worms that dive straight through the eyeholes and into the brain.
—Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Arredondo-Brock’s piece really opens up when one looks inside the eyeholes of the mask and sees a stream of words in the form of thought bubbles that have been created inside.
—Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
Will Cousin Greg throw up out of the eyeholes of a children’s costume again?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2019
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“Eyehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyehole. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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eyehole
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eye·hole
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