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.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOLLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hollow
 a.  sound as if echoing in a empty space; void; vain; not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  "Good morning, sir," a hollow voice boomed at him from a beak of paper.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
7  Down in the hollow, at Pointz Hall, beneath the trees, the table was cleared in the dining room.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
9  The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
10  Everything being hollow and worthless, she had missed nothing and sacrificed nothing.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  "I will not fight with thee at present," said the Templar, in a changed and hollow voice.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  In the wood all was utterly inert and motionless, only great drops fell from the bare boughs, with a hollow little crash.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
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.