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

For example, the charity said, if endometriosis was discovered during keyhole surgery the fact it had been found may not be formally recorded.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 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

The book was held shut by three sturdy clasps, each with a keyhole.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull