Walking backwards, the man using this implement could press into the ground two rows of egg-shaped holes at a time, as fast as the women could follow with the seed.
On their left lay the sea, all around them was sand broken up by huge dunes, and practically nowhere could any shell holes be seen.
No roads led to the batteries, but merely dry weather tracks across roughly beaten-down shell holes and trenches, and for a time it seemed as though they must be cut off from all sources of ammunition supply.
The surroundings were not inspiring; they had been wrested from the enemy during the Somme offensive and, in common with the rest of the battlefield, were torn and pitted with shell-holes in all directions.
But he must be careful not to be arrested, for the jails in the South are man-killing holes in many and many an instance.
He simply says: "Why don't they get out o' those blasted holesand come over here?
These huge round boulders still remain in the holes; they and the walls of the holes are worn smooth by the long-continued chafing which they gave each other in those old days.
This track was perforated by huge pot-shaped holes in the bed-rock, formed by the furious washing-around in them of boulders by the turbulent torrent which flows beneath all glaciers.
To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
A long, strong needle for mendingholes or rents, especially in stockings.
A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell.
To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
One who, or that which, dibbles, or makesholes in the ground for seed.
A frame house, standing near the corner of Eighteenth and Maple, was shot full of holes by flying bricks from another house a hundred yards away.
Again, we are told that all animals manifest great fear before the earthquake comes; that lizards, snakes, mice and rats rush from their holes in terror.
Several large circular holes were blown through the brick walls; one of these in the side away from the storm.
Holes were cut in the weather-boarding by planks evidently driven through the air endwise, and pieces several feet long had penetrated and stuck hard and fast.
Big holes were blown into the sky, the moonlight blew about.
Jesus with holesin His hands and feet: it was distasteful to her.
After a while he heated red the steel end of his rifle cleaning-rod and bored holes for the webbing.
It hardly paid to float the canoe in the tiny holes among the rocks, miniature cascades, and tortuous passages.
Bowlders of all sorts harassed the free passage, stones rolled under the feet, holes of striking unexpectedness lay in wait, and the water was icy cold.
One after another the animals dug themselves holes in the snow, where they curled up, their bushy tails over their noses and their fore paws.
Daily the doctor trudged, umbrella in hand, along the edge of the sandy road, which was full of holes and marked by a tumbled-down fence.
When he went to the hospital on winter mornings, he stepped carefully so that not everyone should notice how cleverly the holesin his boots had been mended with cardboard.
Numerous holes low in the hull, made by the big balls of the Serapis's 18-pound guns, were letting in water at an alarming rate.
Time and time again did the ship's carpenter and his mate stop these up, only to have new holes splinter through with a sickening sound.
By standing on this, while setting plants in one set of holes, holes for another set are formed.
Bronze stand for the game of mancala, with ten holesand two irregular-shaped cavities in the centre.
It is pierced with five holes and engraved with hatchings in Benin style, in which are included two stars, a cross, and three crocodiles.
In the intervals between the other figures are oval holes with raised edges, probably a degenerate representation of the coiled mud-fish so frequently shown in other Benin antiquities.
One of the shots ploughed up the deck within a yard of the foot of the mainmast, another splintered a boat, three others added to the holes in the sails, but no damage of importance was done.
We can provide for that, aunt, by leaving two bricks inside, whitewashed like the rest, to push into the holes if you hear anyone removing the wood.
On the march they carry this in the hand, tapping the ground as they go, and all along the road the granite pavement is worn intoholes from the taps of centuries.
Old Whitey was sprawled out in the middle of the lane, "with his nostrils all wide," and more than a dozen bullet holes in his body.
All told, it made nineholes in my clothes, but never touched my flesh.
The big, shady pools along Sansom branch where I had gone swimming when a boy, and from which I had caught many a string of perch and silversides, were now dry, rocky holes in the ground, and the branch in general was dry as a bone.
But when Jack puts a saucepan on the fire without any water and burns holes in it, or tries whether plates and dishes can support their own weight in the air without a table beneath them, then, I confess, my patience runs short.
I say nothing of his blacking the boots inside as well as out, or of his laboriously scrubbing holes in a serge coat with a scrubbing-brush, for these are errors of judgment dictated by a kindly heart.
In primitive times the worship of clefts in rocks, holes in the earth, or stones having a natural or artificial perforation, appears to have been almost universal.
These sacred chasms or holes were regarded as emblems of the celestial mother, and persons went into them and came out again, so as to be born anew, or squeezed themselves through the holes in order to obtain the remission of their sins.
The names of the dead were carved on marble tablets fixed above the pigeon-holes containing the ashes.
The Van Gysen carried a similar cargo, and was provided with an arrangement for blowing holes in her bottom.
Around Holborn Circus immense damage was being caused, and several shells bursting on the Viaduct itself blew great holes in the bridge.
Although the printed forms and broadsides were, of course, in their dusty pigeon-holes ready to be filled up, yet where were the men?
A kind of collar connected the receiver with the case, and on every side the box was pierced with holes for the pipes.
In a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow.
This Smith has picked two holes in my client's hat, and with an inch better aim would have picked two holes in his head.
He picks holesin my literary style, which doesn't seem to suit his high-toned European taste.
But how does this picking of holes affect the issue?
All the jokes in the world won't unpick those holes or be any use for the defence.
The hat with the two shot-holes in it rolled upon the gravel path before him, and Innocent Smith came round the corner like a railway train.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard, or the ape.
Where a poet might conceive a new composite, making it live, a moralist must dissect the experience and rest in its eternal elements.
The natives lived in holes and chambers hollowed in the cliff.
Galloping our hardest along the high cliff, riddled with holes and passages in which the natives live, we found ourselves at last among friends again.
We here procured some oysters and clams, also some dog-fish caught in the holes of the rocks, and a supply of water.
At the beginning of the voyage Ahab nailed to the mast a Spanish gold doubloon, promising it to the man who should raise "a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and crooked jaw, with three harpoon holes punctured in the starboard fluke.
I had just before seen all the port-holes crowded with seamen, trying to escape, and jamming one another so that they could scarcely move one way or the other.
But the mutineers' plot had been discovered by the boatswain, who plugged up the holes in the ship's side, and when the crew deserted her the Grosvenor cheerfully sailed away.
Several pirates fell, dead or wounded, on the crowded deck, and some holes appeared in the foresail; this one interchange was quite in favor of the ship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
