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

A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery.

From BBC • Jan. 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

Certain phrases drifted through the keyhole or under the door of Father’s office and up the staircase and round the landing and under the door of Bruno’s bedroom. . .. to leave Berlin.

From "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne