How to Use hollow in a Sentence

hollow

1 of 3 adjective
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  • There was a hollow spot in the field.
  • Though this summer, the signs amount to a hollow threat.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
  • The base of the planter has hollow legs that sit in the reservoir to wick up moisture to the plant’s roots.
    — Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This time, though, the hills aren’t hollow, and the industry knows it.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The loaves should also sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Keep in Mind: For the self-watering to work, pack soil into the base of the planter’s hollow legs.
    — Jennifer Carmichael, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The shift knob is hollow, which Ford says helps keep it cool in warmer weather.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Below us were the hollow footprints of the Twin Towers.
    — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The bets were massive—and built on a hollow foundation of bad loans.
    — Stephane Lintner, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • Because this chime is hollow, rain and snow will pass right through and won’t warp the wooden frame.
    — Kate McGregor, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Convenience, though, tends to be a hollow virtue on its own.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The general’s head was hollow, save for a few traces of wax mold and some dirt and rust buildup inside.
    — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And the crown carved into the oak roof is hollow to allow cameras to be fitted.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 6 May 2023
  • It’s thought that its bones were hollow, like other huge sauropods, which reduced the weight put on its joints.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • But one of the things that is sad is that those hallowed spaces are also hollow.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There was the thwap of the crossbow string, a hollow thud of the arrow hitting home, and then the fading rustle of the buck running off through the grass.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The hollow body hold forces you to keep your abs squeezed tight to prevent your lower back from popping up off the floor.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
  • Instead of solid wood, their trunks were thin and hollow.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Like all hollow tube baits, this one dips and dives best when rigged on an internal lead head jig.
    — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Make up a whole new world inside our cozy hollow tree hideaway.
    — ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • For example, the Cozy Earth bamboo sheets have a 300-thread count (as well as narrow, hollow fibers to let the air pass through).
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • He’s got that angular hot-guy face, with hollow cheeks and a sharp jawline.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The rifle shaves weight by use of fluted barrels, bolts, and bolt handles along with a hollow bolt knob.
    — Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • All of that tugging and smooshing can make your voice sound hollow or muddy.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The back paws of the male platypus are known now to possess hollow spurs in their heels, which are connected to venom glands.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The cord attaches to an includes ball that has a hollow center and a hole running through it.
    — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Managed bees are typically kept in a drafty box low to the ground, as opposed to a snug nest high in a hollow tree.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Tap the top of the skin with the back of a knife or metal spatula, and listen for a decidedly hollow sound.
    — The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The cherry blossom tree with sparse branches and a hollow trunk, which has become a sort of icon in Washington, D.C., throughout the years, is currently making its last bloom.
    — Jana Kasperkevic, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Hollow Position Start with the hollow position exercise to work on strength building for chin-ups.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 13 Mar. 2024
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hollow

2 of 3 noun
  • The owls nested in the hollow of a tree.
  • Make a deep hollow in the center of the flour with the back of your hand.
    — Compiled By Celestina Blok, star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The rolling landscape means that some parts of the 35-acre grounds sit in windswept hollows.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • The second shade is a pitch black to carve out the hollows of your face like a pumpkin.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The small one fits neatly into the hollow of the temple.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To do so, start by sucking in your cheeks to find out where the hollows of your face are.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 June 2018
  • The living room was like an igloo with a proud hollow for a fireplace.
    — Bono, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Using a sponge, apply the dark contour to the hollows of your cheeks, sides of your nose, and edges of your face.
    — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Your thirst feels like a cavernous hollow at your core.
    — Amy Ragsdale, Outside Online, 18 June 2019
  • This is a week for moving into the caves and hollows, into the spaces where the light gets dim.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The men who worked there had heard him crying and found him in the hollow of a tree behind their building.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • To really add depth to the look, contour the hollows of your cheekbones.
    — Allure Editors, Allure, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In the hills and hollows, cows and horses graze uphill and down, at odd angles, in the fields of huge ranches.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Others leave you with creepy white hollows around your eyes.
    — Hannah Morrill, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 June 2014
  • Still, others will make their show in your neighbor’s garden or the hollow of some old oak tree at the edge of the woods.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Oct. 2021
  • They were known to have swallowed four-inch stones to grind up their food, and females made one-egg nests in hollows in the ground.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2018
  • The coconut octopus was sitting in a small hollow in the sand.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Her hands are curled by arthritis and her right eye is just a lidded hollow now.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • The first man, emerging from the hollow of a bamboo, found water, tubers, fine clay and resin.
    — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • Last year, a deluge of rain touched off flash floods that surged through the hollows of eastern Kentucky.
    — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • Her husband, then 21, was a moonshiner who owned the only car in the hollow, an Army Jeep.
    — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The line of contour along the hollows of the cheeks created a parallel line to the shadow at the outer corner of the eyes.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Soldiers burrowed hollows in the walls of the trench, to huddle in during Russian shelling.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Females attach their eggs to the insides of tree hollows, which hold pools of water.
    — National Geographic, 20 Jan. 2016
  • Tens of thousands of years ago, humans sought refuge from the elements in a rocky hollow near the crook of Africa’s western coast.
    — National Geographic, 22 Jan. 2020
  • There are Mercury hollows, structures that appear to be unique to the planet.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2017
  • The scientist cut a slice out of the bone to count the layers, then filled a hollow in the bone with plastic and returned it to the whaler with a write-up about his whale’s age.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In their trade, a last is a precise model of the foot that replicates its length and width, its protrusions and hollows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • And so the hollow of the son travels in tandem with the unknown quantity of the state, taking the nation's measure.
    — Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And yet …) All through Merrily’s opening scene, Groff’s eyes are dead hollows — deep, dark wells with reservoirs of tears way down at the bottom, threatening to make their way up.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
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hollow

3 of 3 verb
  • They hollowed the log to make a canoe.
  • Cristobal looked hollowed out on the field after the game.
    — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Otherwise, hollow out a few eggs, grab the paint, and get to work!
    — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the buildings were hollowed out with broken glass in the lobby.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Take the tea out of a tea bag, hollow it out and stand it up, and (carefully) take a match to it.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2022
  • The easiest way to hollow out this area is with a small Forstner drill bit, on a drill press.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Brush the mushrooms all over with olive oil and place, hollowed-out side down, on a baking sheet.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Justin hollowed out the pumpkin to harvest the seeds and then decided to have some fun with the kids, Christin said.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The pests kill the trees by burrowing into the bark and hollowing out the insides.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Mr. Holmes is famous for its cruffins—croissants that are baked like muffins and hollowed out.
    — Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Use a spoon or melon baller to hollow out a little hole, taking care not to poke all the way through to the other end.
    — Jais Tollette, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The rush to let anyone with a bank account big enough into the sport has made these kinds of actions hollow.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Simply hollow out the core, sauté it in brown sugar and butter, add it back in to the apple and wrap it all up in pie dough.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Part of what has kept that myth and has perhaps grown that myth is the side effect of the middle class being hollowed out.
    — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Just hollow out the apples, fill with cider, and drink through cinnamon-stick straws!
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 27 Aug. 2020
  • To prepare it, hollow out a loaf of French bread, then fill with breakfast favorites like eggs, sausage, and cheese.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2022
  • And as of today, August 20, the clean skin-care brand is giving me one more product to hollow out.
    — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This is achieved by hollowing out the center of the spiral, so half the sound wave goes through the spiral and half goes though a central tube.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Above the church, cliffs, hollowed out like a beehive, served as Incan grain silos.
    — Finn-Olaf Jones, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • That has hollowed out both the middle class in big cities and the economic engine in smaller cities.
    — Kevin Quealy, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2019
  • To achieve that, Tinsley hollowed out Cage’s eyes and gave his lips shadowing.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The crisis has revealed hollowed out public health care across the region.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Like Diet Coke poured into a hollowed out mango, and sipped from it.
    — Caity Weaver, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
  • At the same time, the ranks of part-time rural firefighters have been hollowed out as the population leaves.
    — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Streets have hollowed out, and stores were closing — leaving them with few food options.
    — Tatiana Sanchez, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The Brookings finding confirms that while some technical jobs are going to some of the cities that have been most hollowed out, the best ones aren’t.
    — Vauhini Vara, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Both Philip and the Inquisitor live on, however hollow their souls.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Or is extreme affluence a sort of benign virus that can only hollow out the diverse life of a city.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2018
  • The idea is to hollow out armored troop carriers to hold more than a thousand gallons of water.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • Ladder trucks trained broad streams of water into the hollowing shell.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023

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