hollow

The abject poverty in a rural colonia could be something out of the most dire hollow in Appalachia.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Skarsgård’s wicker man is tall, blonde and handsome on the outside, but hollow by design.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s also nostalgic in a way that finally seems imperative in today’s Hollywood that reeks of hollow, monetized sentimentality about its past.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

A Google spokesperson said its call for public feedback isn’t hollow, and it wants to ensure it can tailor its approach to help the specific needs of the community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

A hollow space under the stairs and some haphazard friendships were not an operation.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“A persistent contraction of this kind hollows out the pipeline of future experienced workers, causing declines in aggregate productivity as well as imposing cohort-specific scarring.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

These include tree planting or the digging of dips and hollows into the landscape, but are often hampered because a large proportion of river catchments are on private land.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

“What’s changed about hollows that they can get into loops now?”

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

But diplomacy had failed, and it would have been the hollowest pretense to maintain relations.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

Yet of all the characters in our history Bolingbroke must be pronounced to be most of a charlatan; of all the writing in our literature, his is the hollowest, the flashiest, the most insincere.'

From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis

The pomp of kingship was to her the hollowest of all chimeras.

From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith

Critics argue it hollowed out the country's stock of social housing and contributed to today's housing crisis.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Just as sanctions hollowed out Iran’s defenses, they left the country’s economy brittle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

One of them raised the hollowed horn of a kudu bull to his lips and blew, to give courage to the hunters.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Others, including Goldman’s Garrett, believe the hollowing out of the market is a risk worth monitoring.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The purported hollowing out of the American dream has recently been the subject of many a hand-wringing headline or newspaper column.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

But opaque AI loans and excessive leverage — ‘credit termites’ — are hollowing out the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

When Zora spoke you were aware of the skin stretching over these cheekbones and hollowing out between her jaws, the tight mask it made, banshee-like, with her blue eyes piercing through above.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides