hollow

The judge said the Alexanders’ arguments about rehabilitation rang hollow because they hadn’t admitted what they had done was wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

"At a time when both international law and justice are under attack, when too many states attempt to hollow them out, her Nobel Peace Prize could not come at a better time," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The top of my head connects hard with the solid piece of wood, making a big hollow THONK!

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Centuries ago, they emerged on seaside courses as natural pits and hollows caused by erosion and by animals sheltering from the wind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

Instead, they appeared along the sides of the ridges and within the sandy hollows between them.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 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

Leaning over the pond, she saw in the glassy water the hollows of her cheeks.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

It’s hollower than a tweet asking for thoughts and prayers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

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

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 week before the convention there came a provincial earthquake; the news passed from man to man in awe-struck whispers—McCune had withdrawn his name, making the hollowest of excuses to his cohorts.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

I trust," said Monsieur Bonticu, in his hollowest death-room voice, "that Monsieur is satisfied.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Richard Connell

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 William Michael Rossetti

Head over heels in love with a man she met online, Helen's mother hollowed out a book and put £10,000 cash inside.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Office and retail properties suffered after urban downtowns were hollowed out by remote work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Once a byword for joyful excess, Havana has been hollowed by blackouts, departures and deep uncertainty about its future.

From Barron's ● Aug. 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

The crawlway was a narrow, square, cold tunnel hollowed out beneath the flight controls, and a large man like Yossarian could squeeze through only with difficulty.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

In a long career before his death in August, at the age of 92, the agrarian writer Wendell Berry argued that modern agriculture was decimating family farms, hollowing out rural communities and poisoning the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

So he dug and dug into the rising snow with the goal of hollowing out a snow cave, a place to weather the terrible storm.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el