1.   We could knock a hole through the wall into the cupboard.

2.   After a piano belonging to his daughter, Margaret, knocked a hole in a ceiling, exposing structural weakness, President Truman completely overhauled the interior.

3.   It was result-oriented jurisprudence meant to knock a hole in the wall of separation between church and state.

4.   Several months ago, the church leased three floors in an adjoining building and knocked a hole in the common wall to link the two.

5.   Term limits have winnowed away the professional politicians and knocked holes in the boilers of the party machines.

6.   The attackers chained the garage doors, knocked holes in the walls and threw grenades inside, the indictment said.

7.   The Freedom tried to knock holes in the Boston defense and, for the most part, it worked.

8.   The last of the original wooden boats sank upstream several years ago when an angler hit a stump, knocking a hole in the bottom of the boat.

9.   The mission would be to knock substantial holes in the formidable Serb air defense network of Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns.

10.   The missiles knocked holes in concrete and stirred up a cloud of dust and debris.