holes up

verb

present tense third-person singular of hole up
as in hides
to remain out of sight we'll hole up in the cellar and wait out the hurricane

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Recent Examples of holes up The floor-length dress featured a cross-stitched halterneck, a netted bodice and a floor-length lace skirt with holes up and down her legs. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 May 2026 Vancouver has literally no defensive structure, little offensive pressure and obvious holes up and down the lineup. — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Drilling into your home’s exterior is rarely a good idea, and patching any holes up is an absolute must. — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 26 Feb. 2026 Adelaida holes up in her mother’s apartment, unable to bring herself to pack up or even sort through her things, ignoring the banging and shouting from the street below. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025 In this Canadian oddity, the fictional band Triton holes up in a farmhouse to record their new album. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025 Now on the run after escaping from prison, Manchester holes up in a local Toys R’ Us for several months. — Katherine Singh, Refinery29, 9 Sep. 2025 Canes defenders gave Notre Dame receivers too much cushion in coverage, the interior of the defense allowed too many holes up the middle and linebacker Mohamed Toure busted coverage on Eli Raridon’s 65-yard catch and run, setting up Carr’s 7-yard run for the tying touchdown. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025 Quick and decisive in the middle of the Pondo defense, the 5-foot-11, 190-pound senior has the power to shed blockers and plug holes up front, and the speed to track down ball-carriers on the edge. — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for holes up
  1. hides
  2. lurks
  3. lies
Verb
  • But mostly, the monarch persists because life’s job is to live; because within those thimble-size bodies hides a dynamo of survival that puts our most incredible machines to shame.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • The aggregate number hides exactly the variance that matters for risk assessment.
    — Prashanth Harshangi, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of hides
Verb
  • But amid the crooning local singers and walks down memory lane, trouble lurks.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 July 2026
  • But now, China lurks just offstage, preparing to bring the steel era’s industrial logic back into the story, using scale, subsidies and price pressure to test how durable today’s AI fortunes really are.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 July 2026
Definition of lurks
Verb
  • Throughout the course of their investigation, investigators were led to an address in Nelson, Missouri, which lies between Kansas City and Columbia.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
  • The significance lies less in the sum stolen than in the nature of the failure.
    — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of lies

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