How to Use a window into/on in a Sentence

a window into/on

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• Holt’s satire is a window into the end of the Tory years.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
• Two hooded men in black slipped through a window on the first floor.
  — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
• Tennis fans would also get a kick out of the way the game offers a window into the sport around the turn of the 2010s.
  — Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
• All of these things serve as a window into a story about his life.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 18 July 2024
• A lot of people don’t have a window into the world that was Ohio in the era of LeBron James as a high schooler.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Perez then allegedly smashed a window on the door with the hammer, police said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 23 June 2023
• These photographs offered a window into the White House mood at the time.
  — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Below, a window into the beautiful mind of Raquel Welch, in her own words.
  — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 17 Feb. 2023
• For woods, the sight of the test strips offered a window into the underground economies that support life and survival in New York.
  — Jayson Buford, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• The Colts made four of their scouts available to the media Saturday night, offering a window into the process that led to the 2023 class.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2023
• Events like those are a window into what countries are already facing and could see more of in the future.
  — Jeff Basara, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• With open windows on screen, hold down Shift, then drag a window into a zone to organize it.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• The words are a window into the soul of a man that John Carter, a father of five, loves and admires — as a fan, as a fellow musician, as his son.
  — Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as well as a window into a lost world.
  — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• And the Facebook fine provided a window into the reasons why.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
• The wealth services offered by UBS and others provide a window into the lives of the very affluent.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
• The sale will give a window into what an elite brand that does not control its building is worth fresh off a championship.
  — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• All which required the police to take a large truck with a ramp that allowed officers to enter through a window on the second floor.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 May 2024
• The model snapped a selfie in the reflection of a window on a boat and posted it to her Instagram story.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
• Strewn with smaller artifacts, these remnants act as a window into the world of the Hittites.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• New job has given her a window into the inequalities of the health care system.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 July 2024
• That response could be a window into the team’s decision.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2023
• The book was seen by many as an explainer-of-sorts of the 2016 election victory of Trump and a window into his voter base in the rust belt and elsewhere.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2025
• Venezuela This memoir is a window into the Venezuelan crisis.
  — Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The famous Citgo sign reflects off a window on the roof deck at Whoop's new Kenmore Square headquarters.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• To that end, the podcast serves a window into another world, its threads as launchpads for larger ideas.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2022
• The following week, Pezzola was at the Capitol the front of the mob and was filmed using a police riot shield to break a window into the building.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• The story was a window into what made the 33-year-old Watt a beloved player and teammate during a decade with the Houston Texans and two more with the Cardinals.
  — David Brandt, Chron, 29 Dec. 2022
• Poaching emails can also serve as a window into the latest industry trends and best practices.
  — Ajay Prasad, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• New technologies, new insights New DNA technologies can provide a window into the lives of cryptic species such as the marsupial mole that can’t be studied effectively in the wild.
  — Charles Feigin / The Conversation, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Mar 2025