Example sentences for: hollowed

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

  • The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) "hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world"; and 2) fallen short of "victory" in Kosovo by using "excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force" in a conflict involving "no strategic interest of the United States."

  • Eder says the prose has "so much that is implicit and hollowed out, so much emptiness between the sentences, that the reader is called upon to enter, invent and rearrange," and with "a shivery economy of means and a dreadful lavishness of effect, Mr. O'Nan advances the horror on parallel tracks."

  • He believes native wells are essentially rock-holes (depressions in rock) buried in fairly shallow sand, which, when hollowed out by the natives, appear to be wells.

  • this was hollowed ground.

  • It takes no great imagination to see the resemblance of this outcrop to an elephant drinking in the river; the space between the trunk and the body has been hollowed through.


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