How to Use peephole in a Sentence

peephole

noun
  • There’s a peephole in the wooden wall that lets a bit of sunlight in.
    — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • Try making this adorably tiny sliding barn door for your peephole.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Who hasn’t looked out and watched other people through their peephole?
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
  • An inch above the peephole was a slot with the name Isidore Atlas.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Everything was new — new floorboard, new tiles, and even a new peephole for her door.
    — Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Lucy had been watching Helen for some weeks, on tip-toes, her eye pressed to the peephole.
    — Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Request to see their badge or ID through a window or peephole.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Request to see their badge or ID through a window or peephole.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Knock, wait for the sliding peephole to open and provide the secret password.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Should anyone knock on your door, check through the hotel peephole before opening the door.
    — Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 5 June 2017
  • Lastly, cut a peephole on the same side of the box that the foil is on, but in the opposite corner.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • Through the peephole, the only thing visible was a fist and knuckles.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Sims woke up his wife and asked her to call 911 and then saw the peephole was no longer being covered.
    — Shanzeh Ahmad, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Their romance blossomed through a peephole in Teresa's front door.
    — Esmeralda Bermudez, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
  • Even something as simple as the view through the peephole in the apartment door sets up one of the film’s best sequences.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The man looked out his peephole and saw Gieske and heard the noise of someone shaking a lighter fluid can.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But that peephole field of vision was nothing compared to what Cernan now had.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
  • McMahill said the cameras included one in the peephole and two in the hallway.
    — Lisa Baertlein and Manuel Mogato / Reuters, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In real life, Höss would sometimes look through the peephole as his victims struggled for air.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Navarro’s ex-boyfriend, considering the loud banging and the late hour, grabbed his own gun and looked out his peephole.
    — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Just slip this over the interior door’s peephole and rest assured knowing that no one can use a device to see in.
    — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Just slip this over the interior door’s peephole and rest assured knowing that no one can use a device to see in.
    — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
  • To better safeguard your home, your life and your valuables, have a peephole installed on your front door and on the door leading to your garage.
    — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2018
  • After flipping on the light in the small vestibule, Sister Proba looked through the peephole.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This is a reality not just filtered through the eyes of a young girl but seen through the peephole that is her imagination.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
  • After the dough has been produced, all visible through a peephole, it's kneaded into a flat disc, picked up and moved to the next stage.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • An officer knocked on their hotel door, his two companions ducking out of the view of the peephole, but no one answered.
    — Hannah Phillips, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Multiple times, the victim checked the door to find no one there and began trying to look through the door’s peephole to find out who was knocking.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • The hard part is not obtaining a membership, which can be purchased for $20 at the speakeasy-style peephole at the door.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Paddock hid one camera in the peephole of his suite and two more in the hall, at least one of them disguised on a service cart, authorities said.
    — Author: Mark Berman, Matt Zapotosky, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017

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