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Example sentences for "great hole"

  • Being on shore, the first thing they did, they ran all to the other boat; and it was easy to see they were under a great surprise to find her stripped as above, of all that was in her, and a great hole in her bottom.

  • The chimney, in falling, had crushed a great hole in the roof of his house, and the sight of the havoc made him furious.

  • There he took a spade, gave his lantern to Smetse to hold, dug in the earth rapidly and opened a great hole, pulled out of the hole a leathern bag, opened it quickly, and with a smile showed Smetse and his wife that it was full of gold coin.

  • And on the quay the devil kicked against a stone, which opened of itself and showed a great hole, wherein he was swallowed suddenly up like an oyster.

  • It was expected to blow a great hole in the bottom and sink the vessel.

  • In a few minutes the Merrimac came gliding up and struck the Cumberland a frightful blow with her iron nose, tearing through the thick oaken timbers and making a great hole in her side.

  • The dynamite torpedo had gone off, tearing a great hole in the wooden bottom.

  • Or, rather, I was going until I jumped over a coal, and in my best petticoat burned a great hole.

  • And so, you see, it came out just as it did in the book: Pussy Cat Mole jumped over a coal, and in her best petticoat burned a great hole.

  • After she jumped over a coal, and in her best petticoat burned a great hole, I helped her mend it so she could go to the party.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great admirer; great attention; great body; great builder; great calm; great confusion; great emotion; great fault; great heaven; great love; great misery; great mortality; great pains; great perplexity; great personal; great regret; great relief; great scale; great series; great spirits; great variety; great wisdom; greater pleasure; greater variety; means inclined; think upon