How to Use pinhole in a Sentence

pinhole

noun
Definition of pinholenext
Synonyms for pinholenext
  • The water was leaking through a pinhole in the pipe.
  • 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
  • His field of vision has shrunk to the size of a pinhole.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2020
  • One of the best ways to watch an eclipse is through a pinhole camera.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 23 June 2017
  • There’s a small pinhole in the cardboard and a white screen behind.
    — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But never face the sun and look directly at it through the pinhole.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Mar. 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
  • The size of the resulting image depends on the distance between the scene and the pinhole.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Tucked behind the Cliff House, this pinhole camera was built in 1946.
    — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • How to make a pinhole projector to view the solar eclipse.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • As the user presses on the BPClip, the camera light shines through a pinhole on the finger plate.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 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
  • The pair also placed pinhole cameras on the ATMs, police said.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, 5 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tiny pinholes in the bottom of the bag let water drip out very slowly over a period of up to 10 hours.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • When the eclipse begins, put your eye up to the second hole, while holding the box so that the sun is shining into the pinhole in the aluminum foil.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • To locate a pinhole leak, inflate the tube and feel for escaping air.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In a corkscrew of purple smoke there is a flickering light, no bigger than a pinhole.
    — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Police said small plastic pieces that have a pinhole near the keypad could be a camera.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At one point renamed the Georgia Mae, the boat developed pinholes in its hull from tiny fires sparked by faulty wiring.
    — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 22 June 2018
  • 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
  • To see the partial eclipse indirectly, make a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and let the sun’s light shine through it and onto a piece of paper.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Think: faint discoloration, thread pulls, a small pinhole.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This means that the light the camera receives is a pinhole projection, the size of which varies depending on how far the finger is from the pinhole.
    — Ivan Paul, Ars Technica, 16 June 2023
  • 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
  • That mirror will then rebound light into a tiny pinhole where it will be captured by the cameras.
    — Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
  • For those who don't live near a store, a do-it-yourself pinhole projector is available on the company's website.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024

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