How to Use peephole in a Sentence

peephole

noun

• One camera looked out the peephole on the suite's door.
  — CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
• There’s a peephole in the wooden wall that lets a bit of sunlight in.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• Salazar looked through the peephole and didn't see anything.
  — Justin L. MacK, Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
• Lastly, cut a peephole on the same side of the box that the foil is on, but in the opposite corner.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Well how about watching a whole show through a peephole?
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• Thursday, July 2nd, 3:30 a.m. Sharon Holmes switched on the porch light, spied through the peephole.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• McMahill said the cameras included one in the peephole and two in the hallway.
  — Lisa Baertlein and Manuel Mogato / Reuters, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
• Sims woke up his wife and asked her to call 911 and then saw the peephole was no longer being covered.
  — Shanzeh Ahmad, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Even something as simple as the view through the peephole in the apartment door sets up one of the film’s best sequences.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Cora and Grace can see the happenings of the stage through the peephole in the wall, unable to do anything for Louisa but look away.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• Knock, wait for the sliding peephole to open and provide the secret password.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Through the peephole, the only thing visible was a fist and knuckles.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Pu Pan Hike, the sole adult man in Thantlang at the time, was watching from a peephole as troops used a catalyst to start the fire.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Who hasn’t looked out and watched other people through their peephole?
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
• The hard part is not obtaining a membership, which can be purchased for $20 at the speakeasy-style peephole at the door.
  — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Everything was new — new floorboard, new tiles, and even a new peephole for her door.
  — Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
• Try making this adorably tiny sliding barn door for your peephole.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 23 Jan. 2017
• Should anyone knock on your door, check through the hotel peephole before opening the door.
  — Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 5 June 2017
• Navarro’s ex-boyfriend, considering the loud banging and the late hour, grabbed his own gun and looked out his peephole.
  — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• To better safeguard your home, your life and your valuables, have a peephole installed on your front door and on the door leading to your garage.
  — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018
• After the dough has been produced, all visible through a peephole, it's kneaded into a flat disc, picked up and moved to the next stage.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
• The Alaska settlement plan appeared as a peephole of light.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
• Performances, by these lights, are more like peepholes.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Sometimes, patrons would slap beer labels over the peephole.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• Their romance blossomed through a peephole in Teresa's front door.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
• Visitors look through a peephole (with a lace collar) to see their hero in her milieu, the U.S. Supreme Court, whose curtains are held back by a lacy gloved hand.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Paddock hid one camera in the peephole of his suite and two more in the hall, at least one of them disguised on a service cart, authorities said.
  — Author: Mark Berman, Matt Zapotosky, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Here, the sisters are cloistered from the public behind no-nunsense, spiky window grilles with tiny peepholes in the latticework for the nuns to see through.
  — Rick Steves, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
• An officer knocked on their hotel door, his two companions ducking out of the view of the peephole, but no one answered.
  — Hannah Phillips, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• The Milky Way’s stars are very sparse in the target region, allowing Hubble to probe the cosmic abyss like a viewer peering through a peephole.
  — Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 15 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024