Example sentences for: hollow

How can you use “hollow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He likes the idea of hollow cant being delivered in clipped cadences by a broad, especially one under emotional strain.

  • His paintings looked hollow and often sloppy and garish.

  • Try the Latin aloud, the way it was meant to be read, and the hollow thump of a horse's gallop is in the sound as well as the meaning of Virgil's words.

  • George W. is hollow.

  • Turning to the CIA, Clarke warned that its bureaucracy, which was "masterful at passive aggressive behavior," would resist funding the new national security presidential directive, leaving it a "hollow shell of words without deeds."


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