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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Competitive shooter and instructor Andy Duffy suggests covering the lens with paper and making a pinhole in the center to create a laser-like beam.
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Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 July 2024
Using X-ray guidance, the doctors passed a wire through a gap the size of a pinhole and inflated a tiny balloon to slowly widen the passage.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 30 June 2024
The strategy when the organization was founded in 2019 involved taking the buildings down, as evidenced by a remaining work from that year for which artist Chris Fraser poked 10,000 pinholes into the roof of one of the structures and turned it into a sort of starry lightbox.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2024
Sunlight will enter a pinhole punched into aluminum foil and taped over a hole in one side of the box, projecting the sun onto the sheet of paper taped to the inside of the box during an eclipse.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
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Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 July 2024
Using X-ray guidance, the doctors passed a wire through a gap the size of a pinhole and inflated a tiny balloon to slowly widen the passage.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 30 June 2024
The strategy when the organization was founded in 2019 involved taking the buildings down, as evidenced by a remaining work from that year for which artist Chris Fraser poked 10,000 pinholes into the roof of one of the structures and turned it into a sort of starry lightbox.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2024
Sunlight will enter a pinhole punched into aluminum foil and taped over a hole in one side of the box, projecting the sun onto the sheet of paper taped to the inside of the box during an eclipse.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Pinhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pinhole. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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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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