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Recent Examples of holed up
LaSota; Zajko, who was wanted for allegedly arming Maland’s murderers; and Daniel Blank, a third Zizian, were discovered holed up in box trucks, dressed in all black and heavily armed.
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Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Friends are holed up in bars near downtown, watching NFL games and sharing laughs over brunch plates.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One Battle follows another ex-revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio), now holed up outside a fictional Northern California town and almost perpetually drunk or high, but otherwise doting on his teenage daughter (newcomer Chase Infiniti).
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
When deputies arrived, Appolon ran to the third floor and holed up inside a bedroom, Grossman said.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
McCartney is seen in this footage, holed up on a remote farm in Scotland with his wife Linda and their kids along with some sheep and horses.
—Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
But officers never tried to open the doors to where the shooter was holed up with his victims, dead and alive, until the final breach, instead waiting for keys or tools to break in.
—Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
So we were holed up in that lake house, and that was the same week.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Friends are holed up in bars near downtown, watching NFL games and sharing laughs over brunch plates.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One Battle follows another ex-revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio), now holed up outside a fictional Northern California town and almost perpetually drunk or high, but otherwise doting on his teenage daughter (newcomer Chase Infiniti).
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
When deputies arrived, Appolon ran to the third floor and holed up inside a bedroom, Grossman said.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
McCartney is seen in this footage, holed up on a remote farm in Scotland with his wife Linda and their kids along with some sheep and horses.
—Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
But officers never tried to open the doors to where the shooter was holed up with his victims, dead and alive, until the final breach, instead waiting for keys or tools to break in.
—Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
So we were holed up in that lake house, and that was the same week.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for holed up
lurked
Verb
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The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Holed up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holed%20up. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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