hole in the wall
Example Sentences
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Investigators later found a hole in the wall linking the two houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Through a hole in the wall of one house, some crockery had remained impossibly upright on a shelf - while everything else around lay shattered or burned.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
To get to Faye, the responding fire crew members had to gently create a hole in the wall with a hammer, said Greg Barta, spokesperson for the fire authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
While the commander was at lunch, Sparrow grabbed his ID, telephone and civilian clothes and headed for a hole in the wall.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
We didn’t know this word, curfew, so I knocked on the wall to Safina’s house so someone next door would come to the hole in the wall and explain.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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