- Transplant the seedlings in the normal manner by making a small hole through the surface mulch/manure and plant them into it.
- Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg.
- He's been out in the car park for the last couple of weeks, digging a big hole in the ground.
- Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade.
- We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been.
- The roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn't work - there is no money in the kitty.
- Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively.
- Lytham is a classic seaside links, nine flattish holes out, nine flattish holes in.
- This usually occurs on short putts as golfers try to steer the ball toward the hole.
- They completed 72 holes at four golf courses in one day to raise more than £10,000 for Cancer Research.
- The extent of my golf experience comes down to 18 holes on the miniature golf course at Nifty Fifty's.
- Top lawyers to play 18 holes at 18 golf courses in 12 hours to raise funds for meningitis research
- While walking this earth he commented that foxes had holes and birds had nests in which to live, but he had ‘nowhere to lay his head’.
- Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed.
- From holes, burrows, and crevices, the creatures of the desert night crawled.
- Tonight's report takes us to the Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
- This process leaves the top and bottom surfaces with an excess of charge which attracts mobile electrons or holes.
- Electrons are not the only charge carriers; holes, or open spaces in bonding sites can also be used in conduction.
- Irradiating such quantum dots with ultraviolet light creates excited electrons and the positive holes they leave behind.
- In an emotional message days after Ivan's death, Mr Cameron told of the "hole" left in his life by the youngster's death.
- Good on the surface, but as many have pointed out, all the plot holes and problems show up when you think about it for more than 10 seconds.
- One insider said the reason for the explosion of counterfeiting was the hole still existing in the law.
- Within 24 hr of the announcement, wily business pilots had figured out the plan was full of holes.
- Her sudden idea to bring Ryan with her, to the hole of a town she originated from, had not been discussed with him.
- Students were aggrieved at the possibility of being ‘stuck renting a hole in Cowley’ as Jessop put it.
- Four more fights in this hole before we get the hell out of here.
- The stage was huge - the World Cup - his team was in a hole, and the situation was certainly death or glory.
- The criticism of the state companies has surfaced at a time when they appear to be climbing out of the financial holes into which they stumbled in the 1990s.
- It took us 20 years to get in this hole and it's going to take us 20 years to get out.
- Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
- Casualties were light but they lost one of their ships when it hit a rock and was holed.
- The vessel was holed in numerous tanks with loss of crude and resultant pollution.
- Magnificently, he holed the shot and allowed himself to smile again.
- I'm swinging the club the way I want to, the putter is okay too, it's just that I'm holing nothing.
- I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now.
blow a hole in
- Ruin the effectiveness of: the amendment could blow a hole in the legislationMás ejemplos en oraciones
- If you love eating out, all you really need to know to avoid blowing a hole in your healthy eating plans is which dishes to go for and which to avoid.
- The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas.
- As he tries to explain this theory, Gonzales blows a hole in it himself.
in the hole
- North American informal In debt: we’re still three thousand dollars in the holeMás ejemplos en oraciones
- So the crash, when it comes, is going to leave a lot of people deep in the hole.
- In other words, they planned to go in the hole, but they didn't go in the hole as much as they thought.
- Instead of paying once, you pay twice and the deeper you get in the hole, the more they control you.
- Worn so much that holes have formed: my clothes are in holesMás ejemplos en oraciones
- I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare.
make a hole in
- Use a large amount of: holidays can make a big hole in your savingsMás ejemplos en oraciones
- If you have set up a home and want to dress it up without making a hole in your pocket then here is an option.
- The markets are a cornucopia of plenty and the prices won't make a hole in your pocket.
- It certainly would make a hole in the $6.5 billion tax surplus that was announced yesterday.
need something like a hole in the head
- informal Used to emphasize that someone has absolutely no need or desire for something: the government needs another reorganization like a hole in the headMás ejemplos en oraciones
- This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head.
- ‘We needed his injury like a hole in the head,’ said Godfrey of Smith.
- On the other hand, I need another expense like a hole in the head.
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- He eventually holed out to a diving catch at deep cover by Jamie Glasson and walked off to a standing ovation.
- Katich holed out to Jones at third man, leaving McGrath stranded 80 short of his century.
- He finally fell for 34 off 69 balls - holing out to Ricky Ponting, which brought together the partnership that all England fans had been clamouring for.
- Tiger Woods holes out for a birdie and is now two clear of the field.
- He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt.
- He holed out from the 14th fairway on Sunday for an eagle that gave him a share of the lead.
- informal Hide oneself: I holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in SnowdoniaMás ejemplos en oraciones
hide, hide out, hide oneself, conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go undergroundBritish informal lie doggo
- A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country.
- Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel.
- I've come to the realization lately that I've been holing up in my apartment way too much for far too long.
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- Others had big hats, including some triangular ones in the shape of holey cheese.
- In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
- You're instructed to throw away all your laddered tights, holey socks and sad-looking bras.
Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) 'cave', (adjective) 'hollow', and German hohl 'hollow', from an Indo-European root meaning 'cover, conceal'.
Palabras que riman con holebarcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole
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