make a hole in
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“So every time I go back with my daughter and make a hole in the ice I’m right back, I’m 4-years-old lying on the reindeer fur trying to get fish. It’s a very positive emotion.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022
"Even more shocking, she'd say that eating gluten and soya yoghurt, even, would make a hole in her tummy and she couldn't have babies."
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2021
And she heard this banging and smashing like somebody was trying to make a hole in the wall.
From Slate • Aug. 31, 2021
In general, frog embryos use enzymes released from special "hatching glands" to make a hole in the egg membrane.
From The Verge • Jun. 15, 2016
To this he added some pulverized, dried grass, worked almost into flour, and when it was all together, he gently used his finger to make a hole in the middle.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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