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

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

But keyhole surgery found no sign of it, sparking a "vicious cycle" of surgery and Prostap.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024

Somebody had stuck gum in my padlock keyhole.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin