hollow

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

Legend has it that the outlaw Robin Hood used the Major Oak's hollow trunk - which in fact was caused by fungi - as his hideout.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

“What we are working toward is not a rejection of multilateralism, but putting clarity and results over inefficiency and hollow words,” a senior State Department official, Michael G. DeSombre, told the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The crew explodes in cheering, celebration, and laughter—but it feels hollow as I look at Autumn.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Clutched in the hollows of our Turbo Premium Plus were 20-inch wheels wrapped around 45-series all-season tires, fresh from the oven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

“Then I suppose you have a way to get past the horde of hollows who’ll be guarding their entrances as well!”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

In Kong: Skull Island, he’s bigger—much bigger, so much so that he could stand eye-to-antenna with the Empire State Building without needing to scale it—but he’s hollower, too.

From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2017

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

"Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

His usurpation had neither law, morality, justice, nor reason—nor even that hollowest of all mockeries, expediency—to rest upon.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

It was upon his return home that George Henry Harrison, well-to-do and content, learned something which for a time made him think this probably the hollowest of all the worlds which swing around the sun.

From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley

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

What's unique about the east of Germany today is that these birth rates are happening within a population that was so recently – and so rapidly – hollowed out.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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

Then he became still weaker, his face hollowed and darkened, his breathing became imperceptible.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

The hollowing out of military veterans from the government, particularly those with the most experience, only increases the importance of defense contractors who are following appropriate procedure.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

Automation had been hollowing out middle-skill work since the early 2000s, quietly eliminating the clerical roles, bookkeeping jobs and sales positions that once absorbed India's graduates.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

“I expect a hollowing out of the middle,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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