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
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
“I’m going way back in the mountains and live in a hollow tree for the rest of my life,” I said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
To avoid the merger trap of cutting so deep it hollows out the brand—the Kraft Heinz merger is the cautionary tale—management plans to plow $100 million of the savings back into marketing and innovation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 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
I knew that was true, but I also knew the hollows would tear apart anything in their path, including a couple of normal girls.
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
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 Tarkington, Booth
For the first time this Spanish custom, which really seems picturesque and fraternal when coming from shepherds or muleteers in a mountain inn, struck me as the hollowest of forms.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
"Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
Meanwhile, they overheard their parents fret that society might be forever hollowed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
He had a contradictory physical presence, taking up space, a decent-sized kid, but hollowed out.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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
In the 1980s, William Julius Wilson sounded the alarm on job loss hollowing out black communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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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