hollow

The abject poverty in a rural colonia could be something out of the most dire hollow in Appalachia.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

"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

It was a hollow promise, but I knew it would work for now.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The two 18-year-olds moved to the city with every intention of staying, even as the industry’s local footprint hollows out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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

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

The second species is the ring-tailed glider, and just like its Australian cousin the greater glider, it lives in the hollows of tall trees.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

It wouldn’t hold the hollows for long— not two of them.

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 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 Friedrich Engels

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

His usurpation had neither law, morality, justice, nor reason—nor even that hollowest of all mockeries, expediency—to rest upon.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

The father of the bride who lets a chatbot draft his toast has hollowed out the ritual.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

Little sketches of fairy couples dancing in the moonlight, gnomes peeking out from hollowed trees, a stone palace with turrets spiraling up from each corner.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

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

Automation had been hollowing out middle-skill work since the early 2000s, quietly eliminating the clerical roles, bookkeeping jobs and sales positions that once absorbed India's graduates.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

After Roan’s death, electric lightbulbs began to appear on the outside of Osage houses, dangling from rooftops and windowsills and over back doors, their collective glow hollowing the dark.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann