hollow
Example Sentences
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Disney’s struggles with succession over the decades have become epic dramas filled with false starts, larger-than-life leaders reticent to go and allegations of hollow searches for a new CEO.
From Los Angeles Times
“A newsroom cannot be hollowed out with consequences for its credibility, its reach and its future,” the guild said in a statement.
From Salon
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 Literature
What critics often describe as “hollowing out” is better understood as expansion.
From Barron's
“But it’s also a very, very hollow feeling when you’ve got people trapped under mud.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
