rathole

Example Sentences

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The states would be motivated to determine the legitimacy of the payments before the money disappears down the fraud rathole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

When I try to describe the civic and cultural value of architecture, I sometimes contrast entering Grand Central, the city’s great gateway, with the experience of arriving at the rathole that is Penn Station.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2020

The house was a real—I won't curse on the podcast, but, you know, a rathole, let's say.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2018

The actual Nixon was ever the wounded animal, so lacking in social and personal confidence that it led him down the rathole of a scandal that shattered the public’s trust in American politics.

From Slate • May 18, 2018

My mother placed a portion of it in a small bowl and left it overnight in a corner where there was a rathole.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane