Examples of pinhole in a Sentence
The water was leaking through a pinhole in the pipe.
pinholes in a bedsheet will look like stars if you shine a light from behind it
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Most controls sit above the pad, and include Power, Input, Microphone, and Settings buttons; dedicated service buttons for Disney+, iHeartRadio, Netflix, Paramount+, Prime Video, Xumoplay, and Vizio's Watch Free+; and a pinhole microphone.
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Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
The blank walls stared at her, vacant pinholes made by previous tenants peering down like dark, shrunken pupils.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.
—Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
The blank walls stared at her, vacant pinholes made by previous tenants peering down like dark, shrunken pupils.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.
—Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
His pinhole view of both markets and states leaves little room for the more complicated, sometimes antagonistic interplay between them.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Pinhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pinhole. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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pinhole
noun
pin·hole
-ˌhōl 
: a very small hole made by or as if by a pin
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