peephole
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He then heard a second, "very aggressive knock" but did not see anyone when he looked through the peephole.
From BBC ● May 9, 2024
A few minutes later, Fortson heard a louder knock but didn’t see anyone when he looked through the peephole, Crump said, citing the woman’s account.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
“An American Tail,” a positive review in The Minneapolis Star Tribune said, “offers a peephole into a past that doesn’t seem so far away.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
Even something as simple as the view through the peephole in the apartment door sets up one of the film’s best sequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
When the Professor finally was free to return to his peephole the children had gone home, leaving the storage yard almost free from weeds, and a thistle blossom offering before the birdbath.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Visitors can interact with the exhibition by looking through peepholes to find photographs that tell a story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Leidos told Congress in December it would install peepholes on dorm room doors, limit access to master keys that could open multiple bedrooms, and give teams in the field an extra satellite phone.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
A suspended walkway traverses the entire space, with peepholes at a child’s height punctuating its low, translucent walls.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
And while they didn't find any peepholes in the buildings they studied, they did find some hidden stairs.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2022
She meant that their keepers were making the electric clocks in the dome go fast, then slow, then fast again, and watching the little Earthling family through peepholes.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
