How to Use hole out in a Sentence

hole out

verb
  • There are not many holes out there that don’t reward good shots.
    — Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Jon Rahm once holed out after chipping out from the trees.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Use a pipe cleaner to clear these holes out, and keep the car’s nooks and crannies dry.
    — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Phillips holed out for that first eagle back on 16, from 71 yards out.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Brady hacked his way through the first six holes before spinning back a wedge to hole out on the seventh.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
  • But when Oosthuizen failed to hole out for eagle, and simply birdied, it was sealed.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • The wasps hatch, devour the roach inside the egg case and escape by drilling a hole out to freedom.
    — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The eagle was something to behold as Bradley holed out from the fairway.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In the end, Scheffler and Fitzpatrick had to hole out from the fairway to catch him.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Sam Burns also holed out for eagle to start his day, temporarily giving him the lead.
    — Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Many creative platers like to cut a circular hole out of their bread loaf, which the butter candle then nestles inside.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Sitting two after deciding to lay up 71 yards from the pin, Lopez needed four strokes to hole out.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Tway holed out from the green-side bunker, prevailing when Norman failed to convert his long attempt for a matching birdie.
    — Michael Arkush, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • When Sudharsan holed out in the 11th over, Gujarat started losing steam.
    — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The cave tee box and waterfall combo make three an instant de facto signature hole, but really just about every hole out here could be one.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Everything was in their wheelhouse until Buttler holed out off a clever Tector slower ball.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This house comes complete with solar panels, composting bins, a well for fresh water, and a stick that Barbie can use to bury her poop in a hole out back.
    — Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2023
  • After the interval due to the inclement weather, the greens proved to be much slower and allowed players to hole out more consistently.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
  • On the fourth hole Thursday, Patrick Reed holed out on a 286-yard approach shot to make an albatross.
    — Justin Ray, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • After his tee shot pulled into a bunker, the American came close to holing out with his mesmerizing subsequent swing.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 15 June 2024
  • The start of the round included Maxwell Moldovan holing out for eagle on the 484-yard opening hole.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
  • Woad had a 68, holing out from a bunker for birdie on the 17th before running into trouble on the 467-yard 18th.
    — ABC News, 21 June 2026
  • Ashraf then holed out to mid-off and Shan bowled two more yorkers to Imad Wasim and Green to deny Islamabad a victory.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2026
  • Bopara almost won the Champions Trophy for England in 2013 but holed out on the boundary when going well.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • DeChambeau’s improbable birdie on 18 — wayward drive into the trees, punch out, hole out from fairway — brought him within striking distance, four shots back.
    — Bob Spear, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Buchanan — who tied for second Monday in the individual competition — stayed alive by holing out from a bunker on the par-3 eighth to match Clanton’s birdie.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • The Surrey wicketkeeper-batter hit the new ball for four consecutive boundaries before holing out to Mitchell Starc.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Kartik Tyagi finally provided the breakthrough when Head mistimed and holed out at mid-on to the fast bowler’s 142kph short-of-length delivery.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Originally a cleave in a wall, an actual hole out of which to shoot an arrow, its meaning metamorphized into the process by which a business gets away with something designed, but not well designed, not to be gotten away with.
    — Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • Needing to hole out his second bunker shot to miraculously save par and his Masters chances, DeChambeau made it out of the bunker, but nowhere close to the hole as his ball rolled off the green and onto the fairway.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026

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