Examples of pinhole in a Sentence
The water was leaking through a pinhole in the pipe.
pinholes in a bedsheet will look like stars if you shine a light from behind it
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Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.
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Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
While lasers aren't the most energy-efficient tools, the beam vaporizes a mere pinhole of ice, meaning the drill uses far less total power than electric heaters.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
On versions of the Luna, inspired by the phases of the moon, and the Song bucket bag were the work of Fu Xiaotong, whose practice centers around pinhole work and sculpture inspired by traditional Chinese ink painting.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
While lasers aren't the most energy-efficient tools, the beam vaporizes a mere pinhole of ice, meaning the drill uses far less total power than electric heaters.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
On versions of the Luna, inspired by the phases of the moon, and the Song bucket bag were the work of Fu Xiaotong, whose practice centers around pinhole work and sculpture inspired by traditional Chinese ink painting.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Pinhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pinhole. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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pinhole
noun
pin·hole
-ˌhōl 
: a very small hole made by or as if by a pin
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