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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:

Peering through their loopholes, Jules and Henri spent a useful and interesting half-hour in watching the scene before them.

They seem to belong to that commencement of terrible life which the dreamer sees confusedly through the loophole of the night.

On the one hand, to plead guilty was to renounce all hope of eluding justice through the loopholes of legal technicality.

To this purpose, we should strengthen our antitrust laws by closing those loopholes that permit monopolistic mergers and consolidations.

The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.

Three parallel rows of palisades enclosed a large square, with loopholes through which unobstructed aim could be taken at assailants.

The silent men standing on watch, gripping their muskets, their eyes peering through the loopholes, seemed like so many statues.

To her final act of renunciation, Patricia carried the house with her, and left no loophole for any anti-interest or climax.

The windows are situated high in the wall; they are of small dimensions, being in fact little more than enlarged loopholes.

It admitted them to a narrow turret stair which zigzagged upward, lighted in its progress by loopholes and iron-barred windows.

He kept saying awkwardly, turning redder and redder at each congratulation, and looking from side to side for a loophole of escape.

Every letter, every despatch she received, was laid before them; but the last general petition seemed to leave no loophole of escape.

In this appears to have been the great kitchen; the fireplace is still distinguishable, with a recess and loophole on each side.

This Princess, however, behaved with so much prudence and fortitude that she gave no loophole for the attacks of her enemies.

There is also the loophole, afterwards made, from which a sentry inside the tower could fire at anyone within a few feet.

They stood well to one side of their loopholes and peeped out at the little clearing plainly visible in the bright moonlight.

My idea is to crawl up through the cornfield until we are within shooting distance, and then to open fire at the loopholes.

On both sides bolts and arrows flew unceasingly, and wherever a head appeared at a loophole it became a target for the archers.

On either side are two octagonal turrets, freely loopholed for the purpose of defending the bridge and its approaches from attack.

It must be strengthened, barricaded, the walls pierced with loopholes, and the thatch taken off the roof for fear of fire.

Macdonald's facts, how rigorously must we sift her own explanation of them, how eagerly must we seize upon every loophole of escape!

There are small loophole windows in these apartments, where you can look up and down the glen, and enjoy a magnificent prospect.

Then crawling along the outside of the parapet, stopping often to listen, he soon found the loophole of the new gun emplacement.

Then he slipped his rifle in a loophole and waited for good shots, having worked off the dangerous pressure of his exuberance.

Several had been almost convincing, but a loophole for fraud had remained, and so long as that was the case I persevered.

The front parapet had been partially knocked down that morning, so that the "observing" loophole was now four or five feet wide.

The men had huddled themselves together near the loopholes through which they aimed their guns, trying to make themselves less visible.

Preston, to keep away from the loopholes, through which the leaden missiles were likely to come any moment, on their mission of death.

Other parties loopholed the houses and walls of the village, and formed another barricade across the road at the other end.

He entered the courts not to juggle with words, fence for loopholes out of which to drag dubious acquittals for his clients.

Shots thudded into the walls of his fort in an unceasing stream, and, as it grew lighter, several whizzed through the loopholes.

It is a picturesque yet venerable building, with many gables and curious chimneys, and surmounted by a square tower and loopholed turret.

He brought from Dallas a good supply of weapons, and we fitted to the windows of our house heavy shutters in which were loopholes.

All other outlying houses were also pierced with loopholes, and fortified as well as the slender means of their owners would permit.

He was crouched under the parapet in front, rifle to cheek, its steel nose through a loophole, his finger on the trigger.

To save money in such a situation reflected no credit on any man, simply because there existed no loophole for extravagance of any kind.

To reach the upper loopholes and parapet the men mounted upon oak beams resting crosswise between the masonry and the rock.

The windows on the unprotected side were all partially closed with brickwork, leaving only loopholes through which the defenders could fire.

Save for a glimmer of light which showed through a considerable loophole above the drawbridge, there was no evidence of occupation either above or below.

I have long known this; but, fearing to leave the smallest loophole for escape, I have tarried thus long in elucidating the circumstances.

The fire from the surrounding houses was annoying rather than dangerous, but several bullets struck the stones of the improvised loopholes.

The men outside were evidently crouching at whatever work they were on, and so were safe and below the level of the loopholes.

Loopholes in the hoary stone walls of the basement were carefully covered, but a burning dip on the hearth betrayed them within.

There they had skillfully transformed the cellar into a gun pit, with a loophole four feet in diameter overlooking an orchard at the rear.

The men at the palisade replied to the Indian volley, some shooting from the crest, while others sent their bullets through loopholes.

Running to the stockade and peering out through the loopholes, the startled white men saw before them a small band of Indians.

And then, looking through a loophole, I saw seven or eight prostrate forms on the ground, the victims of the seamen's muskets.

The latter, smiling, answered him by merely pointing out with his finger one of the glazed loopholes which were over their heads.

He supplied himself with gunpowder and slugs, and cut loopholes in his doors and shutters from which to fire at the assailants.

Indeed, it is on purpose to allow you that flattering loophole of escape that I always artfully employ the less exclusive or general expression.

Like the one below it, the place was bare, and Jack flashed his electric searchlight about without discovering any loophole of escape.

The doors and shutters were all strong and double-barred, and moreover were loopholed in a way that enabled us to command both approaches.

Fresh loopholes were pierced in the tower, and stones were gathered in the upper story, in readiness to throw down on any assailants.

A desperate sortie often proves the safest defense; and three or four resolute arms will cut a loophole of escape through a host of enemies.

On 28th a long march, in the course of which we passed through some villages strongly fortified and loopholed, but deserted by inhabitants.

Every chink had to be stopped up to hide the light from the English, who were constantly on the watch through the loopholes.

He made us peep through loopholes, each and every different from the other, yet each and every skillfully hidden from an enemy's observation.

I am sorry for your pretty cousin, and Christmas, and the rest: but you see for yourself that we must leave no loophole unguarded.

At their posts, flattened against the stakes near convenient loopholes, they cast backward glances and exchanged faint whispers from time to time.

There existed no reason, therefore, to dread the fire of the assailants, except as a casual bullet might find a passage through a loophole.

Once he scrambled up to a loophole in the fortifications and looked abroad at the scattered lights of the city set in the void of night.

He left her no loophole of escape; and by the time he fired his final question at her, she had decided on present capitulation.

Ditches ten feet deep were cut, parapets seven feet high thrown up, the farmhouse itself strengthened, and all the garden walls loopholed.

As soon as his task was completed, Charley relieved his chum at the loophole and Walter set about making coffee and cooking some breakfast.

And as he was mounting up to the topmost story of all, curiosity led him to risk one more little peep through an open loophole.

Boone was so certain that nothing farther was to be apprehended from the enemy, that he dispensed with the sentinels at the loopholes.

If you shuffle with your subject, and study chiefly to use language which will give a loophole of escape either way, there is no hope for you.

The entrenchments were constructed of large trees laid horizontally between stakes driven into the ground, about seven feet high, with loopholes for firing.

It consisted of a group of houses formed of the trunks of trees, surrounded by a palisade of sharp stakes, with loopholes at regular intervals.

"Yes, sir knight," was the reply: "they have occupied all the loopholes, and are ready, with arrows on their bowstrings, as you commanded."

There was constant peeping through the loopholes, and the occasional whistling and whooping were accepted as signals to open the last decisive attack.

One of our troubles was that there were no loopholes in the parapets, otherwise we could have shot many of the Maoris in the ditch.

It had become rather a pose with him to consistently belittle my abilities, and I think he was chagrined at finding no loophole for criticism.

All business was stopped, the houses were loopholed and fortified, and advantageous positions were occupied by the military and the various volunteer corps.

The men all levelled their muskets at the approaching foe, pointing them through the loopholes, which had been left for the purpose.

The hearty recklessness of his unbelief drove through and through her composite faith, and riddled it with loopholes for her soul's escape.

Nothing could be more peremptory and decisive, and not a loophole was left for explanation or arrangements, or endeavor to patch the thing up.

In attacking a stockade the assailants try to get close up to it, fire in through the loopholes and hack it down with axes.

We know through what strange loopholes the human mind contrives to escape, when it wishes to avoid a disagreeable inference from an admitted proposition.

Springing back into the corner tower, and adjusting his eye to the loophole, the plan of the assailants could be seen at a glance.

We have lost a number of good men, and two of the children have been frightfully wounded by arrows coming through the lower loopholes.

We held several other outposts, being brick buildings outside the barricades, which we loopholed, and found very effective in holding the Indians aloof.

Once their magazines were empty, it took only a few moments to replenish them, and again they poured a stream of bullets through the loopholes.

He nodded appreciatively, for it required no great imagination to see, in his mind's eye, the loopholes which undoubtedly ornamented that end of the houses.

Sniping is under the control and supervision of a sniping officer, and loopholes should only be used by men appointed by that officer.

The soldiers, with their customary promptitude, without receiving any orders, approached their guns which were in horizontal position, pointing through the loopholes.

He muttered absently, and went away from the table to look out of the loophole, leaving me there with the sword and the pistol.

The others, farther to the east, were slipping back as fast as they could, but studiously keeping out of sight of those death-dealing loopholes.

The upper story projected several feet all around, and had loopholes in the overhanging, floor, through which the men could shoot down.

Cried Guy, suddenly, as he looked through the loophole; 'I can see just the top of one's head and feathers among the currant bushes.

The moment after, there was another flash from a loophole on the other side, and one of the maroons uttered a cry of pain.

The leading men of the right and left parties went over the parapet together, using the loophole of a machine-gun emplacement as a step.

The second volley resulted in the instant death of an American named Stewart, who had risen to return the first fire through a loophole.

Said the speaker without, and the next instant the lower part of the loophole was darkened by what seemed the head of a man.

See if there are any windows or loopholes in the chamber above, and if so stuff your jerkins into them; we will close up those here.

Imagine a great parallelogram made of log cabins set end to end, their common outside wall being the wall of the fort, and loopholed.

He could only remember how his heart started to beat as he heard, through the northern loophole, the faint tinkling of a distant bell.

I was looking through my loophole, when I saw some dark objects creeping out from amid the brushwood on the opposite side of the ravine.

The muzzle of the rifle again projected from the loophole and with its crack the doctor staggered for a moment and then fell.

He was, he thought, quite as well able to see loopholes of escape as a lawyer would be, so long as they did not depend on technicalities.