in holes
Example Sentences
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“We have to stop putting ourselves in holes and then trying to figure our way out. It’s got to get cleaned up. It’s got to get fixed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
Jenny Paterson spent three-and-a-half hours using a rake, spade and bucket to fill in holes on a rutted section of Bridge Street in Halkirk, Caithness.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024
But before it does, it is sometimes pre-seeded with shoreline plants and grasses, or those plants are placed in holes that can be punched into the coir logs.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2023
They are especially interested in holes that persist through many different scales.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2022
But he sees firsthand how they can be so loosely allied as to be basically ineffectual—they are wretched and filthy; they live in holes.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
