hollow

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

The committee’s rhetoric about Ms. Pillay’s efforts to “promote peace and international law” rings hollow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"During the initial search, we had examined the walls, checking for hollow spaces," said Sainte.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

That explosion of tomato and garlic, the ooze of cheese, it erased the smell of bleach that had scorched his nostrils; it filled up the hollow emptiness that yawned in his belly.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Bigger trees are also more likely to form hollows – a critical and declining habitat for rare species such as the greater glider and Leadbeater’s possum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

“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

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

While the others talked, I turned my focus inward, trying to sense the hollows.

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

"Vengeance, sir, is the hollowest of all the mockeries that go to make up life."

From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

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 Richard Le Gallienne

And philosophic literature will often seem to me the hollowest thing.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

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

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

He was so close to me I could have touched him—he was beautiful in the flesh, hollowed out and coiled like a spring, nervous energy radiating off him.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The cause of the commotion stands frozen and alert at the end of a hollowing log.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond