How do you use the word "hole" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hole": There is a big hole in your stocking. You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette.

Hole Meaning

/həʊl/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

nounAn opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

Sentence Examples

There is a big hole in your stocking.

You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette.

He dug a deep hole in the garden.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The mouse escaped into a small ____ in the wall to hide from the cat.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He accidentally stepped in a deep ____ in the grass and twisted his ankle quite badly.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hulaz Proto-Germanic *hulą Proto-West Germanic *hol Old English hol Middle English hole English hole Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow. Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks." — c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

"Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill." — 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

"The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 12:9:

"[…]her palfrey’s footfall shot Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead Fantastic gables, crowding, stared:[…]" — 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:

"But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back" — 2011, Fun, “We Are Young”:

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