Example Sentences

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The only break in the show’s near decade-long history came during the COVID-19 pandemic, when artists all around the city were holed up in their homes with nowhere to play.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Ukrainian marine Yaroslav Rumyantsev was taken prisoner in Mariupol in May 2022 when, after one of the fiercest battles of the war, troops holed up in the Azovstal plant were forced to surrender.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

No other player got as close to the pin all day, and he duly holed the putt to take a two-stroke lead, as Cameron Young missed his effort to keep pace.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

I’ll be holed up in a conference room at WSJ headquarters in New York with a crack team of my Features colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson