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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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V1) 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 (V2) 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 (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
10  This man is habitually engaged in digging a hole.
Les Misérables (V2) 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 (V2) 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 (V2) 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 (V2) 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 (V2) 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 (V2) 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.