Example sentences for: holes

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

  • They are so lonely, our dying cities,specks on the vast familiar map that looks like a side of beef,in boldface or marked with a circled dot,ringed by their beltways, linked into nameless constellations by the interstates.Some are red giants, spreading and cooling in the smoggy dusk,others dwarfs with dense shrunken coresor black holes so involuted they swallow the light around them.

  • Rotary phones have the familiar dial, with a circular motion and finger holes.

  • The joke we make there is that there is so much money for Internet venturers available to entrepreneurs located in Silicon Valley that there are not enough rat holes to shove it down.

  • Computer science up to that point had been dominated by "batch-processing," a system believed to be maximally efficient, wherein programmers wrote code at their desks, copied it onto stacks of cards with holes punched into them, and handed them over to technicians who had a priestlike say over who got to use the computer, and when.

  • For example, while we have turned our bathrooms into palaces of comfort, lots of the world's people still squat over holes, which makes it difficult to finish reading the business section, but is a real bone builder.


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