hollow
Example Sentences
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Barely ten days later, Pelley’s words now ring with a tragic, hollow naivety.
From Salon
But this isn’t evidence that tariffs are hollow.
A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.
From Salon
“What Cuba is going through—a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out—is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict,” he said.
The previous February, 132 million gallons of black, sludgy water, heavy with mine wastes, surged through a makeshift dam and down a mountain hollow known as Buffalo Creek.
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