How to Use hideout in a Sentence

hideout

noun
  • Many Chamaleños fled to the mountains in the north to a hideout called Lonesome Cove.
    John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2018
  • In fact, this area was used as a hideout for outlaws of all types for about 30 years.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017
  • In fact, this area was used as a hideout for outlaws of all types for about 30 years.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Phone records show that one of the calls was made from the hideout house shortly before the murders.
    latimes.com, 8 July 2018
  • These were later used as an al-Qaida hideout, and at least one was bombed by the U.S. in 2001.
    Samya Kullab, ajc, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Where to stay: The six rooms at the Heceta Lighthouse offer a unique coastal hideout.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 June 2020
  • The hideout is a modernist mansion that clings to one of the island’s many rugged cliffsides.
    Ewan Wilson, Wired, 15 Sep. 2021
  • This town is a hush-hush hideout that Chileans are only just starting to share.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by U.S. forces on his compound hideout in Pakistan.
    Arkansas Online, 8 May 2022
  • Be sure to check out the Plan 3 at The Estates with its four-bay garage, with plenty of room to have a workshop or hideout.
    Pat Setter, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2017
  • That in turn gained him access to Castro's hideout on the far end of the island from Havana.
    USA Today, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Staff discussed a plot to kidnap the Australian from his hideout in the building.
    Jonathan Browning, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But even in a solitary hideout, the mind still launched thoughts at itself like a slingshot.
    Jamie Kreiner, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The survivalist is willing to damn the rest of the world to protect the man who stumbled into his hideout.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Jeff Daniels went for an even-sadder hideout room with lots of closets.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2021
  • One day in 2018, the men received a tip about an enemy hideout.
    Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Directors Bert and Bertie make clever use of the Tracksuit Mafia's hideout.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • He and Arya even meet Beric in the brotherhood's secret cave hideout.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2017
  • These were later used as an Al Qaeda hideout, and at least one was bombed by the United States in 2001.
    Samya Kullab, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But Felix grabs Huck's gun, which then leads to a big fight that ends up setting their hideout home on fire.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2020
  • One look with the spotting scope confirmed my fears, the rams had left their hideout, walked within a hundred yards of my tent in the night, and were on the move.
    Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2020
  • An East Texas ranch that was a hideout for gangsters and a Las Vegas gambling boss has sold.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Though Sierra seems to have settled into gang life in the hideout, she’s still got some tricks up her sleeve.
    Tara Ariano, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Gallant also said that the leader of Hamas is ''on the run'' and running from hideout to hideout.
    Marin Scott, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • If the piece of film wasn’t worth a lot, why would these strangers keep showing up unannounced at his East River hideout?
    Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Pirates were at least as dangerous as the sea, and Fourni was long known as a pirate hideout.
    Nick Romeo, National Geographic, 11 July 2016
  • The park is home to champion trees — that is, the largest in their species known to man — and was once a swampy hideout for bootleggers and runaway slaves.
    Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The hilltop was used by Caddo Indian scouts and was once used as a hideout for the outlaw Sam Bass.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Zooming in, more bushes can be seen on golf course property on the other side of the fence, further obstructing the hideout spot.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Flores The island of Flores or flowers, which gets its name from the goldenrods, and pink and blue hydrangeas, used to be a notorious hideout for pirates waiting to raid treasure-laden Spanish galleons on their return to Europe.
    Mary Lussiana, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2023

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