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Meanings of keyholes in English
Russian
замочная скважина Synonyms
Examples for "keyhole"
Examples for "keyhole"
1
Alice is in bed, snoring like anything; I listened outside the keyhole.
2
All right; there's nobody at the keyhole; I may say it safely.
3
The bird and the keyhole were somehow lumped together in her mind.
4
First she peeped through the keyhole; then she peeped through the window.
5
He went to the keyhole of the door leading into the passage.
1
She shot the beam of her torch into the keyway and saw something that disturbed her.
2
In an amateur mistake, she had forgotten to place the flat of her pick in the bottom of the keyway.
3
During the duration of the Liberty program, four crankshafts failed from fatigue, failures starting from sharp corners at bottom of propeller-hub keyway.
4
Grady leaned sideways on the toilet, lowered his head, and clearly saw a luminous golden eye on the farther side of the keyway.
5
You can also use the number to order more locks that use the same "keyway" to keep your fob from getting overloaded.
Usage of keyholes in English
1
Pistols were at once applied to the keyholes, and the locks destroyed.
2
Only those doors can be securely locked which have no keyholes outside.
3
I must not stop at rummaging papers, nor at listening at keyholes.
4
He goes peeking around in search of cracks and keyholes and tiny drafts.
5
Not a wise idea, they develop a diabolical habit of listening at keyholes.
6
Beneath it was the steel lid of a small coffer, with two keyholes.
7
Cockroaches and blackbeetles don't talk and they don't listen at keyholes.
8
Az well az why ze new onez come. Clearly, Angelique liked listening at keyholes.
9
I hear it whistling through all the cracks and keyholes of the house-whistlingdismally.
10
I spotted two keyholes: Union cylinders, probably with night latches.
11
From one of the keyholes hung a bunch of keys.
12
I believe he goes round the house, listening at keyholes.
13
It blew through keyholes, under doors, and around window frames.
14
Vacated lockers were scrubbed, mattresses fumigated, brass coat hooks, doorknobs and keyholes were buffed.
15
To become fellow to the lackey who listens at keyholes?
16
Tiptoeing around with his eye to all the keyholes.
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