keyhole
Example Sentences
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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
Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 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
Or through a mesh screen and a keyhole.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024
This was a demoniac laugh—low, suppressed, and deep—uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
