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Recent Examples of peephole
The man looked out his peephole and saw Gieske and heard the noise of someone shaking a lighter fluid can.
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Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
The removable panel has a 4-inch 1080p color screen that displays a live stream from the camera, which is ideal for doors without peepholes.
—PC Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
The Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails Finally, a speakeasy that actually uses an old-timey sliding peephole!
—Tim McGovern, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Lucy had been watching Helen for some weeks, on tip-toes, her eye pressed to the peephole.
—Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
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Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
The removable panel has a 4-inch 1080p color screen that displays a live stream from the camera, which is ideal for doors without peepholes.
—PC Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
The Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails Finally, a speakeasy that actually uses an old-timey sliding peephole!
—Tim McGovern, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Lucy had been watching Helen for some weeks, on tip-toes, her eye pressed to the peephole.
—Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for peephole
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peephole
Noun
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The top featured a high neck with a keyhole neckline, flared long sleeves, a cape overlay, which creates a lightly exposed back.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Halle Berry paired her skintight latex skirt with a plunging keyhole cutout blouse for an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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During the same period, some samples featured leather washers, some had tool pockets, and others used hand-sewn buttonholes, among other distinct characteristics.—
Mohsin Sajid,
Sourcing Journal,
16 Dec. 2025
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Maass traced her rounds, dressed in crisp blue-and-white stripes, white muslin cap with a black ribbon, thermometer pushed through a buttonhole.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Lane began to shut the entrance to the apartment building when Payne opened fire.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Feb. 2026
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Ephesus, Turkey — The security lines at the entrance move with airport-like efficiency.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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All of it from the narrow knothole that is our point of view.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2022
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In addition to the knothole described above, the company plans to consult a community advisory committee, whose members will sign a nondisclosure agreement.—
Steven Litt,
cleveland,
4 July 2021
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“Peephole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peephole. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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