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How to use bolt-hole in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word bolt-hole? Here are some examples.

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Britain has become a bolt-hole for villainous individuals and criminal organisations from all over the world.
Penelope Wilton plays Daisy Langrish, an author who moves into a Yorkshire cottage she has bought as a bolt-hole from her busy life in London.
Wood recently fled to a bolt-hole in Ireland with a Russian cocktail waitress.
Many Taliban fighters are seasonal, and use Karachi as a winter bolt-hole to earn money, often in lowly jobs.
Datum number in table Q305: Enter the number in the datum or preset table in which the TNC is to save the coordinates of the bolt-hole circle center.
With stained-glass windows and dark oak panelling from floor to ceiling, it must be a glorious bolt-hole when the open fire is roaring in mid-winter.
Just outside St David's, the one-bedroom bolt-hole has a yawning inglenook fireplace, exposed beams and flagstone floors.
Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs.
Examples from Classical Literature
The fact that the bolt-hole in the catch is empty also tells the same story.
Like rabbits, they frequently make a bolt-hole, by which they may escape from an intruder.
He scuttled through the tortuous windings of the burrow, and through a bolt-hole to the open air.
A bolt-hole should be of a size to enable the bolt to be pushed in, or, at any rate, not more than gently tapped in.
Drift, in mechanics, a piece of steel or iron used to back a bolt, or to widen a bolt-hole.
Harper came out of the bolt-hole when Carol, her voice shaky with relief, told him it was safe.
There are the two holes at the ends where the doors turned on their pivots, and the bolt-hole in the middle.
When she comes out again it is as a rabbit comes from a bolt-hole when a ferret is just behind.
Louise, meanwhile, finds the perfect bolt-hole in Cornwall to keep her wayward teenage daughter out of trouble.
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