How to Use hole up in a Sentence

hole up

verb

• But there are plenty of warm, dry theaters to hole up in.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
• One way to work on that this summer is to hole up in a quiet room and do nothing but watch video.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2018
• Workers were holed up at the mine over the weekend, afraid to leave because of threats by armed groups.
  — Fox News, 28 May 2018
• Bedbugs will hole up in furniture, along baseboards, in cracks in walls and, yes, in beds.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2018
• Garski played his shot tee shot for the par 5 554-yard ninth hole up its fairway but hit the lip of a bunker.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been holed up in the embassy for almost six years.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 25 May 2018
• Kanye West has been holed up in his Wyoming studio working on his upcoming album.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• Some initial media reports had suggested the suspect was holed up in bank near the apartment building.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 22 May 2018
• The site’s video chief said he was holed up in a hillside for three days to capture the spectacular images, which were being watched by thousands across the country.
  — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Micah Xavier Johnson spent the last day of his life in a standoff, holed up in a Dallas community-college building.
  — Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
• The troops were holed up behind fortifications on their side of the 25-mile border fence and fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters at five locations on the Gazan side.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2018
• Water Wheel is a deceptively tranquil place, a beautiful confluence of sheer walls, slick-rock surfaces and burbling flows that roll over waterfalls into swimming holes up and down a box canyon.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• For each rose, dig a hole up to two feet around and deep.
  — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2020
• That house they’re holed up in might start to feel more like a prison.
  — Udonis Haslem, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• That means moms and dads hole up in the room for days, sometimes weeks.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• But the flick’s real star is the airport lounge where the swells hole up.
  — Barbara Peterson, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2022
• Eleanor spends most of her time holed up in her bedroom.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• On the next play, Mostert cruised through a cavernous hole up the middle for a 10-yard score.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• Think of Shaun of the Dead’s motley crew holed up in the Winchester pub.
  — Josh Wilbur, Wired, 29 Mar. 2020
• This time Jaylen Jenkins received the kick at the Allen 7 and found a big hole up the middle.
  — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2021
• Retreat to the lake along with the rest of the Donner Party and hole up in those cabins.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• Ewing phoned the apartment where the gunmen and hostages were holed up, and then yelled up the stairs at them.
  — Bob Goldsborough, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
• The captain came to speak with Cox and other guests holed up in the ship’s Liquid Lounge.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• Minor, burning a hole up the line, had already smacked the base.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
• Stretching out the wait By the end of Monday, most of the Bay Area will have been holed up in their homes for two weeks.
  — Jason W. Lloren, SFChronicle.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• They were holed up with strangers in a Matamoros hotel that felt much safer than the tent camps.
  — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Now some people will drink too much, drive too fast, or hole up and watch TV.
  — Florence Williams, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some were holed up in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• At least until Merit’s estranged grandfather (Harris) — holed up at the family’s lake house — needs help.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 June 2024
• Sentsov, who shares a production credit, also assisted with the coloring and sound, holed up in a post-production studio in Kyiv during his rare breaks from the front.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024