hollow
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They are creative projects with the sneaky ability to hollow you out sometimes, especially when the story requires you to watch someone move through a series of the hardest days of their life.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Now they tell me he will be gone -- my heart feels hollow."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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
At one time, visitors would climb into the oak's hollow trunk but from the 1970s, when a fence was placed around the tree, it was appreciated from a distance.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Then they curled up in hollow trees or beneath rocky ledges and went into a kind of sleep.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
“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
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
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
Kids were bused in from way up in the hollows and from coal camps such as Davy and Hemphill that were too small to have their own high school.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Were the words that the cast spoke and sung hollower than they’d been 2½ weeks ago?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
His assurances of restraint, dubious from the start, now ring hollower than ever.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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
This is about the hollowest place I have found yet.
From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller
The idea that literature is a mere matter of writing is seen to be the hollowest of misconceptions the moment you run over any list of enduring names.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard
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
Annabelle’s hair has grown out some, but her eyes look absent and hollowed out.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
“I expect a hollowing out of the middle,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
But I was sad and wanted Leah to come back because she’ll pick me up and carry me piggyback sometimes, when she’s not hollowing at me for being a pest.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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