HOLE in a Sentence

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For HOLE, below is one of 322 sentences:
Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hole
 n.  an opening through something; gap
 n.  a small, shabby place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
2  He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
4  He arrived in time to see an arm passed through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the glass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
5  Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a tomb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
6  A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and she had a black hole in her mouth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
7  Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a hole in which to bury his name.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
8  That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
9  The wall at the bottom has a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
10  This man is habitually engaged in digging a hole.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
11  From this he had drawn the inference that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
12  Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
13  Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  It was a frightful hole, but she felt free.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
15  Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
16  There was a rope dangling down into a dark, bottomless hole.
17  He dug a deep hole in the garden.
18  Being an expert, he was able to pick a hole in our work.
19  We had to force the pipe down a narrow hole to get it through.
20  I was in my favorite watering hole, waiting for the game to start.
21  The bomb blew a huge hole in the ground.
22  She pricked herself when passing a thread through the hole of a needle.
23  It's a poor mouse that has only on hole.
24  The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
25  Money burns a hole in his pocket.
26  I've got a hole in the sole of my shoe.
27  The hole in your trousers is not noticeable.
28  That last round of drinks made a large hole in ten pounds.
29  A nail tore a hole in her skirt.
30  There was a huge hole in the road.