hollow
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"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
Nesting inside the hollow bones of larger animals may also have helped shield their eggs from predators such as wasps.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Pétanque is a French game that involves rolling hollow steel balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
They showed employees the hollow coin, hoping for clues to its origin.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
“There is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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
Mist floated in the hollows between the mounds, where the pale, ghostly skeletons of hemlock reared above his head, and the purple stalks of dying willowherb released their eerily drifting down.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
A motionless condition of matter is therefore one of the hollowest and most absurd notions, a mere delirium.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich
He comes from Erin's speechful shore Like fervid kettle, bubbling o'er With hot effusions—hot and weak; Sound, Humbug, all your hollowest drums, He comes, of Erin's martyrdoms To Britain's well-fed Church to speak.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
But diplomacy had failed, and it would have been the hollowest pretense to maintain relations.
From World's War Events, Vol. II by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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
A record exodus has hollowed out entire neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Fuel and raw material shortages, chronic underinvestment and nationalisations have hollowed out the local economy.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Because truthfully, no matter how good it felt to be back on the ice, I was starting to feel hollowed out sometimes when I was around the guys.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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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