hollow
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The line is like Nolan nudging his audience to say, check this out: a human pyramid of Greek commandos packed into a dark hollow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"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
At the same time, generations of owls continually deposited bones throughout the cave, providing countless hollow tooth sockets that solitary bees could use.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
As I reached to accept them, Trey brought up his other hand, capturing the hollow shafts of the feathers and my hand between both of his own.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
I knew that was true, but I also knew the hollows would tear apart anything in their path, including a couple of normal girls.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
The Clerk read the act of accusation; it was the hollowest sham the Court had ever heard so far.
From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie
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
"Vengeance, sir, is the hollowest of all the mockeries that go to make up life."
From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael
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
The dollar coin was fake and hollowed out.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
This was supposed to set out details of defence spending to modernise the military and reverse what he had called "the hollowing out" of the armed forces.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Slash costs, and you risk hollowing out the brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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
I woke up and my stomach was screaming, hollowing itself out under my little chest.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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