hollow
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"Now they tell me he will be gone -- my heart feels hollow."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Dancing’s insouciance is reexamined so frequently throughout the album’s first half that one might read its message as hollow, like a desperate attempt to ignore all of the troubles outside the club.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Honeybees typically nest above ground in hollow trees or managed hives, and their colonies usually contain between 30,000 and 60,000 bees.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Critics and sceptics derided the DUP leader as issuing a hollow warning, but he followed through on the threat six months later.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Couldn’t do anything but cower with Wolf in the hollow, knowing he was too close to the gap -just two paces away -yet powerless to move.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
These sand-filled hollows are designed to cause golfers trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Instead, they appeared along the sides of the ridges and within the sandy hollows between them.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
The second species is the ring-tailed glider, and just like its Australian cousin the greater glider, it lives in the hollows of tall trees.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
The lashes made a dark, curved fringe above the hollows of his cheeks.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
That promise, insincere from the start, looks hollower every day.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
Were the words that the cast spoke and sung hollower than they’d been 2½ weeks ago?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
Itgen isn’t sure why larger genomes lead to hollower hearts.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2022
His hair grayer and thinner than in his mugshot from five years ago, and his cheeks a little hollower, Cho, now 56, sat through the two-week trial in a gray pinstripe suit, mustard tie and glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
Then the clicking of its spikes against the stone suddenly turned into a deeper, hollower sound.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
In a world sorely lacking global leadership, champions of human rights stand poised to earn only the hollowest of victories.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated for the presidential race, but it was the hollowest of victories.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 27, 2018
A week before the convention there came a provincial earthquake; the news passed from man to man in awe-struck whispers—McCune had withdrawn his name, making the hollowest of excuses to his cohorts.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth
I trust," said Monsieur Bonticu, in his hollowest death-room voice, "that Monsieur is satisfied.
From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard
I think it is the hollowest and, I am sorry to say, the commonest, of all the fallacies in the history of the world in all stages of civilisation.
From Indian speeches (1907-1909) by Morley, John
Second, it hollowed out Congress’ power to enforce our constitutional promise of racial equality at the polls, insisting that Congress lacked the power to do more than prohibit purposeful racial discrimination.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Wall cabinets, sofas, coffee tables, dining tables, and chairs vanished in an instant. It was as if the entire building had been hollowed out," Wang told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Radio was hollowed out by the corporations, before its utility to the American citizen ended,” Socolow said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Kraft Heinz remains the classic example: a 2015 merger of two industry stalwarts followed by brutal cost cuts that hollowed out its own brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
He looks hollowed out, like the first time I saw him up close, in the police station—as though someone has scraped away his insides, leaving a shell.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Having promised to reverse what he called the "hollowing out" of the armed forces, the settlement Healey was offered on Monday was not enough for him.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
L.A.’s declining share of a contracting film and television industry is hollowing out its middle class, a group Pratt rarely talks about when homelessness is not at issue.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Along Egypt's Mediterranean coast, the oldest tram in Africa and the Middle East rumbles for a final few weeks before its removal -- the latest urban upheaval Alexandrians say is hollowing out their city's identity.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
By evening, they began the time-consuming task of hollowing out and shaping the hard yellowish wood into a canoe.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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