How to Use rabbit hole in a Sentence

rabbit hole

noun
  • The rabbit hole grew deep, and the fan base kept watching.
    Wired, 31 July 2022
  • For some of us, that’s reason enough to fall down the rabbit hole.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2021
  • This is a guy who went down that rabbit hole for 40 years.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Projects like these are a rabbit hole as well as a dead end.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That, of course, led me down the rabbit hole with more questions.
    Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The slick inner tour guide with the deep tenor voice who leads Keanu Reeves down the rabbit hole?
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • With Spooked, the question goes: What if that rabbit hole was full of ghouls?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Walking through the front door is like falling down the rabbit hole.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The callouts can go pretty far down the rabbit hole — in fact, the further the better.
    Stephen Carter, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • But, my trip down the rabbit hole has ceased, if only for a moment.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • The pair have gone down a rabbit hole of the early ‘00s LA rock scene attempting to nail it down.
    Sarah Rodman, EW.com, 14 June 2019
  • The depth of my rabbit hole was approaching the Earth’s mantle.
    David Zweig, Wired, 10 Sep. 2020
  • But the Keychron Q2 is for those wiling to go an inch or two further down the rabbit hole.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The Ragnarok forums sent me on my first trips down the online rabbit hole.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This entry point started Chen down the hip-hop rabbit hole.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Then all the good vibes were flushed straight down a rabbit hole for both Freeland and his teammates, who lost 91 games last year.
    Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The effect is like clicking through a Wikipedia rabbit hole of her psyche.
    Maddie Crum, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • There’s no warning—just a warm, glamorous facade, and then the rabbit hole.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Guzzo fell down a rabbit hole, and so did a lot of other people.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • At this point, the anxiety rabbit hole had been opened and couldn’t simply be closed back up again.
    Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 31 July 2020
  • Every day is a good day to get lost in a rabbit hole on baseball-reference.com, but never more so than Tuesday.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
  • Cellaring is quite a few levels down the rabbit hole that is the craft beer hobby.
    Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • These usually came when Goldberg was down the rabbit hole of his next book.
    Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • And so that got me into the rabbit hole of thinking about governance on blockchains.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
  • What follows is a movie that feels quite a bit like falling down a rabbit hole online.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
  • What Zhang could, would, or might do in the future is a rabbit hole of what-ifs and unanswerable questions.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
  • What if Alice didn’t fall down the rabbit hole and instead joined TaskRabbit?
    New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The federation did not so much as back him as follow him down the rabbit hole.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • For too long, many have assumed that once someone falls down the rabbit hole of conspiracy thinking, they are lost to reason.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Both spent a significant amount of time falling down the rabbit hole of Alcala’s crimes and the psychology behind his killing sprees.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024

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