Example sentences for: hollow

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

  • I had a thought for no one's but your ears:That you were beautiful, and that I stroveTo love you in the old high way of love;That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grownAs weary-hearted as that hollow moon.

  • Economist Deirdre McCloskey warns against hollow triumphs like, "Why did the man drink the motor oil?

  • "'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations."

  • But if Haynes wants Velvet Goldmine to be an anthem to the principles Bowie once embodied--the embrace of artifice and the smashing of conventional sexual roles--he also wants to portray the rocker as a hollow opportunist who abandoned glam and bisexuality for the life of a corporate superstar, throwing in his lot with the forces of repression.

  • Santorum just didn't want to accept such a hollow measure.


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