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the shelter or resting place of a wild animal watched the snake slither into its hole

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of hole
Noun
A number of efforts have recently launched in an attempt to fill those holes in knowledge with high quality information. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 4 Sep. 2025 Mostly, these holes are sealed with cement. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
Spaun holed putts of 22, 40 and 64 feet all during his last seven holes played. Justin Ray, New York Times, 16 June 2025 Good putting never fails at any U.S. Open, and Spaun holed five par putts ranging from 7 feet to 16 feet to go along with four birdies. Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole
Noun
  • Features and technology inside Iron Beam 450 The Iron Beam 450 gets its name from its 450mm aperture, which is larger than Rafael’s previously announced laser systems.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The lens sometimes struggles with false colors and ghosting in flare when making images into the sun, not surprising given its large aperture.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More David Cannon/Getty Images The Walker Cup pits teams comprised of the top 10 male amateur players from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland against each other.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Trimeresurus nujiang, also known as the Nujiang green pit-viper, is a new arboreal, or tree-dwelling, snake species known only from the high-altitude evergreen forests that border the canyon in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, according to the study.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With the bullish determination of Ed and the wide-eyed second sight of Lorraine, the Warrens’ only child sells a clear vision of right and wrong when news of the Smurls’ predicament comes their way.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To that end, Johnson and the CTU’s Springfield strategy has been at the forefront of all their public messaging on how the school district gets out of this fiscal predicament.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a new Instagram photo dump recapping her 30th birthday celebrations, Brittany Mahomes shared a photo of the Grammy winner, 35, joining in on the party — and placing her martini on the mother of three’s head!
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And then there was the dump single.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Companies are increasingly stepping into roles traditionally held by colleges, universities, and trade schools, creating their own certification programs to address skill gaps that formal education hasn't filled.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Frustrations have been mounting among young people in Nepal over the country's unemployment and wealth gap.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Twenty years later, the city had 30 nests.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Remnants of concrete German artillery bunkers and machine gun nests litter the coastline.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Regular Israelis unhesitatingly stepped up to fill the void.
    Ron Scherf, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • With limited reporting coming out of Gaza, films are filling a void.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While Tranter tinkers and Zuzana monitors the wall of local surveillance footage, Karalis and his team get to work drilling through the wall of the vault.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His company saw a 2,408% increase in flaring immediately following new wells being drilled and a 692% increase in flaring overall in 2023, according to emails unearthed by environmental watchdog organization Fieldnotes and shared with ProPublica and Inside Climate News.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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