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Recent Examples of hole upThe locale he’s holed up in isn’t horrible, either.—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 June 2025 In the early ‘80s, the King of New Jersey holed up in a small house in the Hollywood Hills.—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 24 June 2025 With a second wave of New Babylon forces marching through Manhattan, Maggie, Negan, and Armstrong holed up in apartment and ended the season with a joint proclamation.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2025 Across the region, once-busy parks, shops and businesses have emptied as undocumented residents and their families hole up at home in fear.—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hole up
These brief Charley moments are frankly much more dynamic than any repetitive scene of Dexter lurking around his son.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
The incident comes as paranoia surrounding the possibility of a serial killer lurking within the New England region grips the area following a series of unexplained deaths in recent months.
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