Sample Sentences for
loophole
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    Now they were trying to seize control of GSS by exploiting a loophole in Halliday's will.  (source)
    loophole = a gap in a contract, allowing avoidance of the contract's core intent
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    His freedom wouldn't be based on some tricky legal loophole or the exploitation of a technicality.  (source)
    loophole = a gap in a law, allowing avoidance of the law's core intent
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    It's not commonly known—Father says it's some odd loophole in Empire law.  (source)
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    School dances were the loophole to PDA rules.  (source)
    loophole = a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent
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    —but I got a clipped, cold no. A no without loopholes.  (source)
    loopholes = exceptions
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    Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.†  (source)
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    I rest my head against the headrest and close my eyes, attempting to conjure up a loophole in our situation.  (source)
    loophole = something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
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    After Comrade Pillai left, Inspector Thomas Mathew went over their conversation in his mind, teasing it, testing its logic, looking for loopholes.†  (source)
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    The other bank of the stream was open ground—a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.†  (source)
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    "Ah!" said I, pressing him, for I thought I saw him near a loophole here; "but would that be your opinion at Walworth?"  (source)
    loophole = a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent
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    I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry.†  (source)
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    It is really based on a very old hack, a loophole that he found years ago when he was trying to graft the sword-fighting rules onto the existing Metaverse software.†  (source)
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    You've been slipping through loopholes to avoid Testing.†  (source)
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    But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea.  (source)
    loophole = a small opening in a castle or building that provides light and air
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    The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.  (source)
    loopholes = small openings in castles that provides light and air, and allow an arrow to be fired from within, though the openings are narrow enough that they are largely protected from incoming arrows
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    There was obviously some kind of loophole that had allowed Ridley to get inside.  (source)
    loophole = small opening
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    Later that night when they had the last houses on the hill, he lay comfortable behind a brick wall with a hole knocked in the bricks for a loophole and looked across the beautiful level field of fire they had between them and the ridge the fascists had retired to and thought, with a comfort that was almost voluptuous, of the rise of the hill with the smashed villa that protected the left flank.  (source)
    loophole = a small opening
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    A high wind, blowing through the loopholes, went rushing up the shaft, and filled the girl's skirts like a balloon, so that she was ashamed, until he took the hem of her dress and held it down for her.  (source)
    loopholes = openings
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    He persisted until, at last, he had not sufficient strength to rise and cast his supper out of the loophole.  (source)
    loophole = a small opening in a castle that provides light and air
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    Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at irregular heights, are there still.  (source)
    loopholes = small openings
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    At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall.  (source)
    loophole = a small opening
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    Then, swallowing the contents of his glass, which he put down close to him, Athos arose carelessly, took the musket next to him, and drew near to one of the loopholes.  (source)
    loopholes = small openings
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    The wall at the bottom has a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell.  (source)
    loophole = small opening
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    There are loopholes only in the south wall, as the principal attack came from that quarter.  (source)
    loopholes = small openings
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    And at that, up I jumped, and rubbing my eyes, ran to a loophole in the wall.  (source)
    loophole = a small opening
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    I have induced you to take a charming promenade; here is a delicious breakfast; and yonder are five hundred persons, as you may see through the loopholes, taking us for heroes or madmen—two classes of imbeciles greatly resembling each other.  (source)
    loopholes = small openings
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