Sentence Examples:
He warily scanned all possible loopholes.
His proposal offered no loophole for trickery.
Two rifles were protruded through the loopholes.
Pomp was at a loophole with his rifle.
Representation had become mere misrepresentation; a maze of loopholes.
The walls enclosing this building had loopholes.
Humanly speaking, I see no loophole nor escape whatever.
Now from every loophole spouted a blazing jet.
The rascals have loopholes in those window barricades.
They are volley-firing to keep us from the loopholes.
The Squire placed his musket to a second loophole.
In the towers and the palisade were many loopholes.
There is ammunition enough, and the shutters are loopholed.
There may be a legal loophole out of the muddle.
I'll put some through the darn loopholes for you.
The house was loopholed for unfriendly eyes and ears.
Said Oliver, as lights glanced from casement and loophole.
Jim came over and took a squint through the loophole.
Each loophole in palisade and fort had already its marksman.
I did not want to leave any loophole for misunderstanding.
The parapet walls were high enough, and properly loopholed.
At this loophole of escape the face of the planter brightened.
Dully, the woman's mind was looking for a loophole.
"There are loopholes in the shutters yonder," said the officer.
Barricades were being prepared, and loopholes made in the walls.
Jack said, turning a searchlight out of the front loophole.
Judicious arrangements of loopholes and towers cover all dead ground.
Donald McRae made a pretense of peering through his loophole again.
The Doctor's pronouncement, however, seemed to leave no loophole of hope there.
Exclaimed June, laughing, as she stood peeping through a loophole.
I poked my musket through the loophole and pulled trigger.
It was undeniably strong, and then he looked at the loophole.
His presentment at the arched loophole in his stockade was formidable.
Its loopholes showed like dark specks on the body of masonry.
The outposts place a dozen loopholes permitting fire on the bottom.
The old Giantess saw them coming from the turret loophole.
The home ranch was of adobe, built with loopholes like a fort.
Round the whole area was a wall, with parapets and loopholes.
Loopholes had been cut in the bastions as a protection against Indians.
All eyes were watching him, there was not a single loophole unoccupied.
The palisade contained many loopholes for shooting purposes in case of attack.
Two companies were told off to man the loopholes of the stockade.
This impediment removed, you will easily force your way through the loophole.
It was shaped like an inverted loophole, the narrow end facing inward.
They did not even answer the desultory fire directed at the loopholes.
On each side of the door was a face framed in a species of loophole.
We await behind our loopholes, now and then risking a peep through them.
"Have yore say," said Luke, covering a loophole which showed signs of activity.
He flung himself down behind the barricade and peeped through the loophole.
The rounded citadel building, stone built, loopholed for rifles, loomed before them.
My sentry turn began immediately, and the lieutenant posted me at a loophole.
From what loophole were you watching this passing show for man's derision given?
With my penknife I cut loopholes in them, through which I could see.
It was night by the loophole when our turnkey threw the door open.
Another turned from a loophole with blood upon him, laughing at his mishap.
No loophole for escape was left us which the law can sew up.
Loopholes were cut in the projecting floor for showering bullets on Indian attackers.
Seeing no loophole, the Jap gingerly approached the door of the conning tower.
I put my eye to a loophole in the barricade and saw the picture.
"Open the gate," I cried, and I got my musket in the loophole.
One-storied, and solidly built of stone; it had no windows, but suggestive loopholes.
Remembering the gloomy granite loopholes of her imagination, this sun seemed insolently bright.
It was terminated by a narrow and strongly-grated loophole, looking upon the moat.
Guns from each side were thrust through every loophole or crevice and discharged blindly.
That remark showed me exactly where I stood, it left no loophole for self-deception.
The stampeded animals, surrounded save for the one loophole ahead, plunged into the pen.
He saw a loophole of escape from an embarrassing situation, and in desperation he used it.
Only by loophole chinks at intervals Pierces the late glow of this August hour.
The scout took a precautionary look through the loophole and stepped to the door.
At the loopholes the two adventurers stationed themselves, and opened fire upon the foe.
Alex' logic was elementary, and its directness left her no loophole for doubt.
The houses were shut up, the cellar windows barricaded and provided with loopholes.
Those walls, no less than a hundred feet high, were cunningly loopholed for defense.
"Yes, sahib; the brickwork is crumbling, and with tools we could easily make loopholes."
She will find loopholes by which to elude all that, and to deceive herself.
Lower yourself along the passageway, and rise where you will stand at your loophole.
It would only have been throwing away lives, uselessly, to approach any of the loopholes.
The frame was enclosed with slabs, pinned on vertically, and pierced with loopholes.
And when I find a loophole, I like to wring everything I can out of it.
He said yes, held me to my word, and gave me no loophole for retracting it.
Dick lifted his musket and fired through a loophole upon the men rushing forward.
A narrow loophole, glazed, grated and "hermetically sealed," admitted a dim glimmer of day.
Each story is pierced with loopholes, ingeniously constructed to prevent missiles entering from below.
The Arabs were firing not only over the palisade, but through loopholes in it.
She was his antagonist; yet, unwillingly, she might show him some loophole of escape.
The streets should be barricaded and loopholes provided in the walls of the houses.
Many men had been shot through the loopholes, so close were the enemy's snipers.
"Well, but he's come out again," said Joe, reappearing, and walking reluctantly to his loophole.
I am fretting away my life, and I see no loophole of light and hope before me!
They have neither the vigil at the loophole, nor the knapsack, nor the fatigues.
The horseman passed close to the loophole, and there was no mistaking his identity.
His mind, like a ferret in a trap, was seeking wildly for a loophole of advantage.
Renwick sprang to the loophole; but the volley that followed spattered harmlessly around him.
The town is now fortified, surrounded by a high wall with bastions and loopholes.
They climbed up the ladder, and, kneeling behind the parapet, peered through the loopholes.
There was entreaty and pain in the harsh voice, and a loophole in what it said.
Have I got at least one loophole, from which men can snipe, for every section?
Throughout the day urchins climbed the ramparts, and bourgeois came to peep through the loopholes.
Hardly a week passes, but a valuable bequest is successfully contested through some loophole of ambiguous phraseology.
There were small ventilators for admitting fresh air, but these were no larger than loopholes.