Example sentences for: holed

How can you use “holed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We meet Maurice two years after his entanglement with Sarah has (abruptly) ended, but an encounter with her husband--forlorn and hatless in a deluge, convinced that his wife is holed up somewhere with a lover--brings the green-eyed monster (as well as a host of memories) back with a snap.

  • Linked to the Vatican by a thick-walled passage, it served as a hideout for popes in times of danger, notably Pope Clement VII, who holed up here for a month during the sack of Rome by Habsburg troops in 1527 (see page 27).

  • Holed up in his squalid attic studio in Montmartre (models complained of the dust, but Degas believed that sweeping just moved the dust around), Degas narrowed his subject matter to a few recurrent motifs--women bathing, having their hair combed, and dancing--while at the same time experimenting with a remarkable range of techniques and media (photography, tracing paper, lurid color combinations).

  • A Brit who made his fortune with glossy commercials, Kaye was apparently unsatisfied with the cut of the picture he turned in, and at last report was holed up in the Chateau Marmont issuing proclamations of the film's inadequacy.

  • This is where Noel Coward holed up to write Private Lives and where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes for Empire of the Sun.


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