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Definition of loophole:

  • (noun) an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
  • (noun) a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons

Sentence Examples:

No loophole of doubt was left, you see.

Shouted Hiram, closing the last loophole.

Do you not see some loophole, some flaw?

You have given them no loophole of escape.

There's nothing left but the loopholes.

Loopholes punctured all sides of the house.

There was not a loophole for defense.

A loophole is generally provided in case of failure.

He was watching for a loophole of escape.

A religion with loopholes is not a religion.

There wasn't a loophole left open to me.

Was there a loophole in the evidence anywhere?

Then he set to work to make loopholes.

Loopholes are made wherever head cover is provided.

I'd love to live in a house with loopholes.

The second story is pierced with loopholes.

His plausible cunning left her no loophole.

Eagerly, believing that she saw a loophole.

The stone walls were loopholed and bullet?splashed.

His letter was carefully full of loopholes.

There was one loophole left to comfort her.

Mary was determined to leave herself no loophole.

She saw her loophole and made no reply.

He looked in vain for a loophole in the situation.

That would have left a loophole for doubt.

On both sides of the doorway are loopholes.

It had to come; there was no loophole.

I could not find a loophole for escape.

The man has not a loophole of escape.

Seizing the rifle, he sprang to a loophole.

Again the men were called to the loopholes.

He always leaves some loophole which leads to detection.

A couple ran to the loopholes and peered out.

He hasn't left a loophole of escape for Winters.

He would not leave her this loophole, however.

Carlyle had specified seem to offer any loophole.

There was no possible loophole for the colonel.

She saw a loophole, and immediately took it.

The windows facing the street were mere loopholes.

Fire blazed from every loophole and shooting space.

These glance through small loopholes in the foliage.

I saw the leaves fluttering from the loophole.

He was constantly looking for loopholes of escape.

Thoreau and his men were firing through loopholes!

The houses and walls had all been loopholed.

It was loopholed, and divided into two stories.

And then he offered a tiny loophole of escape.

I stood at a loophole watching the approaching savages.

Anyhow, don't stand in the line of a loophole.

Look through that loophole and see what you've done!

There was not a loophole of escape for her.

I thought I perceived a slight loophole for attack.

There was a face in front of every loophole.

Last night I crawled to the loophole for air.

Then he took a final look through the loophole.

Winnie's precarious health gave him the loophole he needed.

Whose guns were to be used through those loopholes?

Ben wanted to leave no loophole for criticism whatever.

The loopholes in the sides are to fire through.

All the rooms are lighted by narrow loopholes.

In the loopholes rifles lay ready for firing.

The fox has always left himself a loophole.

Windows had been barred, and exposed loopholes closed.

Methinks I know every loophole and gate by heart.

Give us a loophole to avoid compulsion, and we use it.

Marcus had evidently left them no loophole of escape.

You know the little narrow loophole in the corner?

Two of these channel-like loopholes maybe seen in Pl.

An admirable loophole of retreat, truly: "in my judgment"!

I lay upon the ground, looking through a loophole.

"On no account look through the loophole," he ordered.

The laws were weak and there were many loopholes.

He asked her, longing for a loophole for escape.

In the present case there was no such loophole.

The speakers ran to the loopholes and looked out.

He passed through the loophole here indicated, and breathed.

Give him a loophole, and he'll ruin everything yet.

I objected, trying to find loopholes in his scheme.

We also loopholed the walls of the two buildings.

The loopholes are on a level with the roof.

On the top there is a rectangular vertical loophole.

All eyes in the cabin peered from the loopholes.

The light had completely faded from the loophole.

Men have taken advantage of this loophole in various ways.

There must be no loophole of escape for his victim.

Men have taken advantage of this loophole in various ways.

In fact, George can find a loophole to doubt anything.

In his desperation, Pilate thought of another loophole of escape.

We loopholed the houses and some houses were pulled down.

I am not certain: there's just a loophole of possibility.

Well, we must try and find some other loophole.

That part is eight feet high and had loopholes.

After a time he got a bullet fair into a loophole.

Herman looked around anxiously, as if seeking a loophole of escape.

He saw before him one loophole of escape from a catastrophe.

The loopholes were constructed in the manner already described.

You see there is no loophole of escape for the woman.

From the loopholes they could be seen preparing torches.

Going to a loophole in the screen he took careful aim.

All along the top was a row of loopholes.