How to Use pinhole in a Sentence

pinhole

noun
  • The water was leaking through a pinhole in the pipe.
  • And the light shows her pinhole eyes no mercy.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • One of the best ways to watch an eclipse is through a pinhole camera.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 23 June 2017
  • For the first time in my life, there wasn't a pinhole of light at the end of the tunnel.
    — Sadie Bell, Billboard, 30 June 2017
  • There’s a small pinhole in the cardboard and a white screen behind.
    — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Dry off the garden hose and wrap the tape around the hose to cover and seal the pinhole leak.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Fill the bottles with water and add a pinhole in the bottom.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • But never face the sun and look directly at it through the pinhole.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But never face the sun and look directly at it through the pinhole.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The pinhole projects an image of the sun on the ground or other surfaces.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Light will stream through the pinhole and project a crescent sun onto the white sheet of paper in the box.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Next, cover that hole with a piece of aluminum foil, and then poke a small pinhole in the middle of it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • Police said small plastic pieces that have a pinhole near the keypad could be a camera.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In a corkscrew of purple smoke there is a flickering light, no bigger than a pinhole.
    — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
  • To locate a pinhole leak, inflate the tube and feel for escaping air.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Basically a metal box with a tiny pinhole at the top of it, and lights inside the box.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2020
  • That mirror will then rebound light into a tiny pinhole where it will be captured by the cameras.
    — Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The former book never stops insisting that its pinhole aperture is a wide-screen lens.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The top of the frame also has mic mute and volume buttons, as well as pinholes for the far-field microphones.
    — PCMAG, 26 Nov. 2024
  • One day while driving, my vision began to shrink, like the end of a movie when the camera reduces to a pinhole.
    — Lisa K. Friedman, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The lone camera on the back looked like a bargain-basement pinhole camera, and the back might even be plastic.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 May 2022
  • This is what the round red pinhole is for—simply hold it up to one of your eyes and look through it, scanning the room for a glowing red light.
    — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There’s also a 10-megapixel selfie cam housed in a pinhole on the top-left side of the main display.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The size of the resulting image depends on the distance between the scene and the pinhole.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Each temple features a downward-firing speak on the end, with a pinhole microphone in front of it.
    — PCMAG, 21 Nov. 2024
  • One of the easiest ways to safely watch the eclipse is to poke a small hole in an index card to create a pinhole camera.
    — Christie Wilcox, SELF, 18 Aug. 2017
  • For example, my friend Jim swears by poking a tiny pinhole at one end of the egg before cooking.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2020
  • For example, my friend Jim swears by poking a tiny pinhole at one end of the egg before cooking.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2021
  • There is still plenty of time to get eclipse glasses or make a pinhole camera to safely watch the next big celestial event.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Aside from the display, there’s a 25-megapixel front camera housed in a pinhole in the top-left corner.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020

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