keyhole

Example Sentences

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For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

For example, the charity said, if endometriosis was discovered during keyhole surgery the fact it had been found may not be formally recorded.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

“Writing online in 2025 feels like performing keyhole surgery while people scream ‘ROBOT!

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Anya twisted to look back at Alfhercht while she kept her hand on the key, as if letting go of it meant it would vanish into the keyhole.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack