How to Use hole in one in a Sentence

hole in one

noun phrase
  • Some golfers go their whole lives without a hole in one.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • Video from the scene shows a bullet hole in one of the windows.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Were the Browns supposed to dig themselves out of a multiyear hole in one season?
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Norr used a 9-iron for his hole in one on the 159-yard hole at Woodley Lakes.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • There is an entry point that left a small round hole in one side of the aileron as well as damage at the likely exit point on the other side.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The viewer is also invited to shake hands with a stranger through a hole in one canvas and hammer a nail into another one.
    — Julie L. Belcove, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • Resort staff also reported a hole in one wall, damage to several others, stains on the carpet and two missing chairs.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • Emergency responders arrived and reported a bullet hole in one of the dining room windows.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Then came Norr’s second hole in one on Thursday, making Suarez’s prediction pretty impressive.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Jake Norr, a junior at Palisades High, made a hole in one earlier this week at Woodley Lakes Golf Course.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Several people spoke of being stuck in elevators and showed CBS News New York unfinished repairs, such as a gaping hole in one resident's closet.
    — Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There is also the risk that a micrometeoroid could punch a hole in one of the heat-resistant outer tiles on the Orion spacecraft, NASA's crew capsule for the agency's Artemis moon missions, undermining its ability to survive the intense furnace of reentry, per NASA.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 7 June 2026
  • New to Taste of Oak Brook this year is a golf simulator that offers a chance to win $2,500 for a hole in one, and prizes of a round of golf for four people at the Oak Brook Golf Club along with a 2027 membership to the village’s Bath & Tennis Club for a closest-to-the hole competition.
    — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

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