hollow
Example Sentences
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Employees, alumni and donor Thomas L. Beckmen met Harding with a tunnel of boomwhackers — colorful, hollow tubes used to help children practice their rhythm.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The British government's response "needs to be more than words" as they "ring rather hollow".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
That pattern echoes what economists call skills-biased technological change: the tendency of some new technologies to hollow out routine work while complementing jobs held by more highly educated workers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Despite Evy’s mother growing less responsive each day, the house’s quiet feels deafening — the distinctly hollow sound of silence filling the place where life should be.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Everything inside me felt shriveled up and hollow, like a dead tree.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Vocabulary lists containing hollow
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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