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hollow English

Meaning hollow meaning

What does hollow mean?
Definitions in simple English

hollow Adjective

— If something has nothing inside of it, it is hollow. The box is hollow. — If the inside of a tree or log has rotted away so the middle is empty, it is hollow. The rabbit ran through the hollow log. — Lacking enthusiasm or cheer "He let out a hollow laugh"

hollow

— noun a cavity or space in something hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks — adjective not solid; having a space or gap or cavity a hollow wall a hollow tree hollow cheeks his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year — noun a small valley between mountains he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians — adjective as if echoing in a hollow space the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom — adjective (= empty, vacuous) devoid of significance or point empty promises a hollow victory vacuous comments — noun a depression hollowed out of solid matter — verb (= hollow out) remove the interior of hollow out a tree trunk — verb (= excavate) remove the inner part or the core of the mining company wants to excavate the hillside

Synonyms hollow synonyms

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hollow English » English

cavity hole empty depression pit cave concave sunken excavate dent valley void cavern scoop burrow concavity blank bare socket gouge dig delve be empty vain vacuum vacuous vacuity vacant space recess hollow out haggard dip dimple depressed crevice cavernous vale trough trench ravine quite pit cavity perforated opening meaningless make hollow indent holler groove

Topics hollow topics

What do people use hollow to talk about?
States Quality Shape Round

Concave
States Quality Shape Round

Hollow
Universe, creation World Land

Underground
States Quantity Full

Empty
States Quality Made of, material

Dense
Person Body

Torso
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with wood
States Big Thick

Thin person

Conjugation hollow conjugation

How do you conjugate hollow?

hollow · verb

Examples hollow examples

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Simple sentences

Tom believes that Earth is hollow.
My life is hollow without him.
A man without ideals is hollow.
Dummling set to work, and cut down the tree; and when it fell, he found, in a hollow under the roots, a goose with feathers of pure gold.
In the evening they came to a large forest, and they were so weary with sorrow and hunger and the long walk, that they lay down in a hollow tree and fell asleep.
The fox hid in the hollow tree.
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Without honor, victory is hollow.
They're hollow.
Is the beam solid or hollow?
Goats have two hollow horns.

Movie subtitles

It was a hollow victory.
A hollow tree stump about a mile from here.
Hollow stump.
The stupid fellow tried to escape through the swamps of Fog Hollow.
It's only fair to advise you against Fog Hollow.
That's Fog Hollow ahead.
Fog Hollow?
I'm all hollow inside.
Scharwenka, a Polish countess who has spurned the hollow mockeries of society and gone in for nightclub entertaining.
If the state's evidence was as breathtaking as its sarcasm which I suggest is being employed to hide from the jury the failure of its own witnesses to back up its hollow case.
Hollow as a busted jug, is what it is!
All hollow.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, workman, unmarried, very tall, hollow voice, no stammer, on the left side of the chest a mark from a firearm wound. Well-read, very good at writing.
Father, whose oath in hollow hell is heard, whose act is lightning after thunder-word.
It's no longer standing. Why? It was metal on the outside, but hollow inside.
That's Fog Hollow ahead. - Fog Hollow?
The androgynous cranium is always hollow.
If the state's evidence was as breathtaking as its sarcasm which I suggest is being employed to hide from the jury the failure of its own witnesses to back up its hollow case. Hooray!
Hollow as a busted jug, is what it is! Quiet, will you?
Is it nothing that 1200 pieces of Spanish ordnance were sunk in my hollow victory?
Ah, but you cannot hide me in a hollow book.
With the hollow sound of the prayer drums the monks try to increase the enthusiasm of the believers.
Hit'em where their hearts ought to be and listen to the hollow sound.
A hollow promise it was, as hollow as that thing that pumps water through your veins.
It's Sleepy Hollow.
Just because you happen to be the kindergarten class in the very favored village of Tarrytown you may run and play in Sleepy Hollow for exactly 15 minutes.
You live right here in Tarrytown and don't know the legend of Sleepy Hollow?
At the midnight hour down the road that leads to Sleepy Hollow across the bridge, he goes galloping galloping, galloping.
A path there goes down into the hollow where we're to wait.
Look, it's a hollow bottle.

News and current affairs

By lifting the half-hearted sanctions imposed by the 14 members of the EU on Austria in February, any talk about Europe standing for a community of values sounds even more hollow than ever before.
Without a sense of civic and political community, democracy becomes a hollow shell of itself, and can become dangerous as it is no longer controlled by rooted values.
If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan - where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death - our claim to be part of a democratic, rights-respecting Europe will ring hollow.
Thus, the claim that the European Parliament directly represents Europe's people and that the people have given the EPP's candidate a direct popular mandate that the member states' representatives in the European Council should respect rings hollow.
At this point, the embryo is a hollow ball of about 100 cells, none of which can be identified as destined to become any particular part of any particular human being.
But we can't, instead what is offered is a hollow vision of the common good that consists merely in successive rounds of cuts in state expenditures.
Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.
Unfortunately, their lofty rhetoric often rings hollow.
The boom in the successful cities, therefore, will hollow out human capital from less attractive industrial hubs, which will then fall into a vicious cycle of decay and falling productivity.
China's answers to those questions are clear: it is no longer willing to risk financial and economic stability on the basis of Washington's hollow promises and tarnished economic stewardship.
Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.
On a wider scale, it was meant to influence and win over Arab and Muslim minds by hollow but bombastic rhetoric.
But claims by Bush that America cannot afford to do anything about global warming ring hollow: other advanced industrial countries with comparable standards of living emit only a fraction of what the US emits per dollar of GDP.
Such remarks from senior military authorities suggest that Obama's warnings may be hollow.
The brute force of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus rings hollow as a cyclical remedy to this problem.
Any subsequent legal reform in Ukraine would appear hollow.
This was China's utilitarian, commercially-driven diplomacy at its most transparently hollow.
National projects ring hollow, and the so-called international community remains an abstraction.
We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.
Indeed, Netanyahu's call for peace will remain hollow so long as he continues to view the solution to Israel's legitimate security concerns as requiring continuous occupation of sizable portions of the future Palestinian state.
In the case of Australia, however, such assertions ring particularly hollow - though that has not stopped Abbott's government from trafficking in them.
Today these arguments ring hollow.
The political core of his regime had become hollow.
Any China-bashing and protectionist pleas this time around will most likely ring just as hollow.

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