spider hole
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ka3 Na5, White’s peripatetic king appears to have found another defensible spider hole.
From Washington Times • Jan. 17, 2023
The brigade’s first deployment to Iraq in 2003 culminated in the capture of the country’s fugitive dictator, Saddam Hussein, whom soldiers pulled from a spider hole in a small village.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
At the very least, you’ll emerge from your work-from-home spider hole clean-shaven and whisker-wiser for your efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2020
Then Saddam Hussein was dramatically captured in a spider hole outside a farmhouse: the Newsweek presses were abruptly halted; and the political mood – even among Democrats – turned back towards foreign policy.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2015
They wouldn’t understand two Americans giggling in a spider hole in the middle of their country.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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