How to Use a window into/on in a Sentence

a window into/on

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  • Two hooded men in black slipped through a window on the first floor.
    — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • All of these things serve as a window into a story about his life.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 18 July 2024
  • Perez then allegedly smashed a window on the door with the hammer, police said.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 23 June 2023
  • Events like those are a window into what countries are already facing and could see more of in the future.
    — Jeff Basara, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • With open windows on screen, hold down Shift, then drag a window into a zone to organize it.
    — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Working with Cruise offered a window into the perks of movie stardom.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 17 May 2025
  • The sale will give a window into what an elite brand that does not control its building is worth fresh off a championship.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Webb’s images from those visits provide a window into the painter’s daily life.
    — Roxana Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • New job has given her a window into the inequalities of the health care system.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 July 2024
  • The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as well as a window into a lost world.
    — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • To that end, the podcast serves a window into another world, its threads as launchpads for larger ideas.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2022
  • These photographs offered a window into the White House mood at the time.
    — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Below, a window into the beautiful mind of Raquel Welch, in her own words.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The use of restraints is a window into mistreatment that pregnant women face in jails and prisons.
    — Renuka Rayasam, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And the Facebook fine provided a window into the reasons why.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
  • Leite’s poignant, sometimes painful memoir opens a window into the world of Brazilian brothels.
    — Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • All which required the police to take a large truck with a ramp that allowed officers to enter through a window on the second floor.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 May 2024
  • The latest discovery isn't the first time ancient food has offered a window into the past, though such finds remain rare.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • The trip to Asia gave Heaven a window into the global pull of United.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • Venezuela This memoir is a window into the Venezuelan crisis.
    — Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Strewn with smaller artifacts, these remnants act as a window into the world of the Hittites.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The two gals talk about clothing and what made the show so special — but one candid moment offered a window into Davis' head.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • Tennis fans would also get a kick out of the way the game offers a window into the sport around the turn of the 2010s.
    — Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But growing closer to Basem gives him a window into what the West Bank was like long before he was born.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The model snapped a selfie in the reflection of a window on a boat and posted it to her Instagram story.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
  • With no cameras allowed in court, artists like Brourman provide a window into the world behind the courtroom doors.
    — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The home tour brings the mission to life by providing a window into the past and a glimpse inside historic architecture.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • For woods, the sight of the test strips offered a window into the underground economies that support life and survival in New York.
    — Jayson Buford, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In addition to zooplankton, which are a window into the base of the food chain, one particular type of fish, myctophids, proved to be key.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
  • The series illustrates how these ideals cause tension among the Garlands, and offers a window into the judge’s beliefs.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 July 2024

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