air hole

Example Sentences

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Then I cracked open one eye and found a tiny air hole at the top of my hat.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2015

The old cap had a rubber seal that, because it tended to swell up and cover the cap's air hole, could have caused the gas tank to collapse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its oxygen became so depleted that by the time their rescuers managed to bore a fresh air hole for them, they had begun to vomit.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the air hole for a muskrat den.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

On June 6, 1916, the French gunner Vannier, taking with him some comrades, most of whom were wounded, succeeded in escaping through an air hole and tried to reach the French lines.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)