How to Use hiding place in a Sentence

hiding place

noun
  • But against Leeds, there was no hiding place.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • As night settled across the Australian outback, a rare bird emerged from its hiding place and moved across the ground.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Guests gathered to watch as the food was unearthed from its steamy hiding place, while local musicians played folk tunes.
    — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The panicked gang leader later took to social media to appeal to cops from a new hiding place.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That’s when the deputies inside the home said Williams emerged from her hiding place with the BB gun pointed at them.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • On a rainy day in southern China, a 1-foot-long creature emerged from its hiding place and worked its way along a mountain road.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The agent shot at Routh, who was rousted from his hiding place and tried to escape before he was apprehended.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • As night settled across a village in Laos, a slender creature with two eggs visible inside its belly emerged from its hiding place.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some 5,600 metres of ascent and absolutely no hiding place for anyone.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • When Glinda emerges from her hiding place, the only remaining traces of her friend are Elphaba's hat and the bottle of green elixir that belonged to her mother.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Yitzhak’s diary abruptly came to an end when he and his family were discovered in their hiding place in October of 1943 and killed.
    — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Just as Jenner passed by, DeGeneres suddenly popped out from her hiding place and scared the 70-year-old reality star.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • During the incident, a woman and her daughter had just returned home in another vehicle when Conner and a second man popped out from a hiding place and attacked them.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • For Lusti, the highwire act has less to do with skiing over exposure that would turn the rest of us into quivering piles of jello and more to do with learning when her time outdoors stops being a refuge and starts being a hiding place.
    — Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This 350-piece building set is inspired by the iconic scene from The Sorcerer’s Stone and has all of its memorable details, including the wind vane and Trevor’s hiding place.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
  • After just over two hours of deliberations, the jury of seven women and five men found Routh guilty on all five counts, which included three federal gun charges and an assault on the Secret Service agent who rousted him from his hiding place.
    — Juliette Arcodia, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In October 1941 a 14-year-old Jewish boy named Yitzhak Rudashevski sat in a crowded hiding place in Vilna Poland, hastily writing in his diary.
    — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Forti made thousands renting the boat to tabloid TV shows eager to show the final hiding place of Cunanan, who shot and killed the fashion icon on the steps of his Ocean Drive mansion in Miami Beach in July 1997.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Visitors follow Otto Frank’s five-month journey back to Amsterdam after liberation, returning to a city that had lost around 70,000 Jewish residents and to his family’s hiding place, mostly emptied by the Nazis.
    — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The prominent mention of Frank, who died of disease in a Nazi concentration camp after her family’s hiding place was betrayed, adds to a growing discourse about whether ICE’s operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota can be compared to the Nazis’ tactics in rooting out Jews during the Holocaust.
    — Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026

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