hole up
verb
holed up; holing up; holes up
: to hide out in or as if in a hole or cave
: to place in or as if in a refuge or hiding place
Examples of hole up in a Sentence
we'll hole up in the cellar and wait out the hurricane
Recent Examples on the Web
Joe Lewis’ superyacht is on the move again after spending most of the past year holed up in a Mediterranean port while the British billionaire faced insider-trading charges in the US.
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Ben Stupples, Fortune Europe, 19 Apr. 2024
The Kearny Mesa incident involved a man threatening to kill himself and believed to be armed with a gun holed up in a Kearny Mesa home and refused to surrender to police, authorities said.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
Tapping singer-songwriter Darrell Scott as producer, the band holed up for a week in the house to capture what become its latest album, last year’s Morning Shift.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
The seeds were planted during that time spent holed up in her room, a time whose lessons have propelled her forward.
—NBC News, 7 Apr. 2024
Authorities on Tuesday afternoon had surrounded a Gold River home where a suspect was holed up after reportedly evading the California Highway Patrol in a vehicle pursuit.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
The captain came to speak with Cox and other guests holed up in the ship’s Liquid Lounge.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
Assange has fought extradition for the last five years from London’s Belmarsh prison, and for seven years before that was holed up as a political refugee at the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK capital.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
While most Angelenos have checked out for the weekend, the couple is holed up in a nondescript office building taking meetings and putting the finishing touches on their other new baby: Hilton Hilton.
—Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
Ben Stupples, Fortune Europe, 19 Apr. 2024
The Kearny Mesa incident involved a man threatening to kill himself and believed to be armed with a gun holed up in a Kearny Mesa home and refused to surrender to police, authorities said.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
Tapping singer-songwriter Darrell Scott as producer, the band holed up for a week in the house to capture what become its latest album, last year’s Morning Shift.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
The seeds were planted during that time spent holed up in her room, a time whose lessons have propelled her forward.
—NBC News, 7 Apr. 2024
Authorities on Tuesday afternoon had surrounded a Gold River home where a suspect was holed up after reportedly evading the California Highway Patrol in a vehicle pursuit.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
The captain came to speak with Cox and other guests holed up in the ship’s Liquid Lounge.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
Assange has fought extradition for the last five years from London’s Belmarsh prison, and for seven years before that was holed up as a political refugee at the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK capital.
—Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
While most Angelenos have checked out for the weekend, the couple is holed up in a nondescript office building taking meetings and putting the finishing touches on their other new baby: Hilton Hilton.
—Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Hole up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hole%20up. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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