How to Use hole out in a Sentence

hole out

verb
  • Use a pipe cleaner to clear these holes out, and keep the car’s nooks and crannies dry.
    Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The wasps hatch, devour the roach inside the egg case and escape by drilling a hole out to freedom.
    Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Brady hacked his way through the first six holes before spinning back a wedge to hole out on the seventh.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • But when Oosthuizen failed to hole out for eagle, and simply birdied, it was sealed.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • Riley, who briefly held the lead, was the first to fade away, dropping a shot on No. 13 and then knocking a drive on the next hole out of bounds through a chain-link fence.
    Tim Schmitt, USA TODAY, 29 May 2022
  • Sitting two after deciding to lay up 71 yards from the pin, Lopez needed four strokes to hole out.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • This house comes complete with solar panels, composting bins, a well for fresh water, and a stick that Barbie can use to bury her poop in a hole out back.
    Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2023
  • After the interval due to the inclement weather, the greens proved to be much slower and allowed players to hole out more consistently.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
  • And so general manager Eric DeCosta entered yet another offseason with yet another glaring hole out wide.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2021

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