hollowed

Example Sentences

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Review panels at the FDA have been hollowed out.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

A record exodus has hollowed out entire neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Similar to onions and a hollowed loaf of crusty bread, you most definitely can stuff a tomato.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Fuel and raw material shortages, chronic underinvestment and nationalisations have hollowed out the local economy.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

One who passed in and came at length out of the echoing tunnel, beheld a plain, a great circle, somewhat hollowed like a vast shallow bowl: a mile it measured from rim to rim.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien