HOLLOW in a Sentence
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188 example sentences for HOLLOW, such as:
1. The tree trunk was hollow inside.
2. Bamboo is a sort of hollow plant.
3. Her stomach felt hollow with fear.
4. The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
5. An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
2. Bamboo is a sort of hollow plant.
3. Her stomach felt hollow with fear.
4. The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
5. An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HOLLOW
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hollow
n. a cavity or space in something
a. devoid of significance or point
Classic Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
1 It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
2 Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
3 "Good morning, sir," a hollow voice boomed at him from a beak of paper.
4 If you tapped--one gentleman had a hammer--there was a hollow sound; a reverberation; undoubtedly, he said, a concealed passage where once somebody had hid.
5 Water, for hundreds of years, had silted down into the hollow, and lay there four or five feet deep over a black cushion of mud.
6 And turning, she strode to the actors, undressing, down in the hollow, where butterflies feasted upon swords of silver paper; where the dish cloths in the shadow made pools of yellow.
7 Down in the hollow, at Pointz Hall, beneath the trees, the table was cleared in the dining room.
8 There in that hollow of the sun-baked field were congregated the grasshopper, the ant, and the beetle, rolling pebbles of sun-baked earth through the glistening stubble.
9 The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
10 Everything being hollow and worthless, she had missed nothing and sacrificed nothing.
11 The knight muttered faintly a few words, which were lost in the hollow of his helmet, but their purport seemed to be a desire that his casque might not be removed.
12 At a little distance on the right hand, a fountain of the purest water trickled out of the rock, and was received in a hollow stone, which labour had formed into a rustic basin.
13 "I will not fight with thee at present," said the Templar, in a changed and hollow voice.
14 In the wood all was utterly inert and motionless, only great drops fell from the bare boughs, with a hollow little crash.
15 A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
Example Sentence:
1 The tree trunk was hollow inside.
2 An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
3 Her stomach felt hollow with fear.
4 The hollow glass tank contains hot mercury vapour.
5 Murray Pick's hollow laugh had no mirth in it.
6 Bamboo is a sort of hollow plant.
7 Any threat to bring in the police is a hollow one.
8 Some observers think that this country's offer to reduce spending on armaments is just a hollow promise.
9 In Spaceballs, we see Rick Moranis burlesque Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.
10 'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'
11 All I can offer, and I hope it doesn't sound hollow or trite, is the suggestion that you take some real time now to count and give thanks for what you've got.
12 Margaret loved her graduated set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.
13 The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.