keyhole
Example Sentences
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Stoppard announced himself with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” an absurdist lark that views “Hamlet” from the keyhole perspective of two courtiers jockeying for position in the new regime.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
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
He had four tiny scars in his eye where healthy copies of the gene were injected into the retina at the back of the eye through keyhole surgery.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025
Spending his first months in office squeezing Gaetz and his ethics reports through a keyhole wasn’t worth the effort when a friendly neighborhood Pam Bondi was available.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2024
Jaja said that when he looked through the keyhole, Papa was holding Yewande’s hand and praying, telling her to repeat “none of those who trust in Him shall be left desolate.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
