hollow Examples
EN[ˈhɒl.əʊ] [ˈhɑ.loʊ] [hɑlɚ] [-ɒləʊ]US
- Examples of hollow
- A few hollow groans from the wardrobe, he thought, would be more than sufficient, or, if that failed to wake her, he might grabble at the counterpane with palsy-twitching fingers. - 1887, The Canterville Ghost/Chapter III by Oscar Wilde
- As the way steepened [ …] I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. — H. Miller.
- Amphoric voice, or amphoriloquy of cavities. — The cavernous direct pectoriloquy, or thoracic voice of the third stage of phthisis, occasionally is found to partake of a hollow vessel, pitcher, or amphoric tone.
- A form of these lissoneoids somewhat resemble the trochoidal forms, the latter being more hollow than the former.
- Figure 4 Photomicrograph showing a) presence fungal hyphae (block arrow), bone trabaculae (hollow arrow) and b) broad aseptate hyphae with acute irregular branching pattern characteristic of mucormycosis (hematoxylin and eosin stained, ×400).
- Examples of hollows
- Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs. / Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, / Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise, / A wave drops like a wall: another follows, / Wilting and scrambling
- Examples of hollowed
- His hollowed-eyed visage showed he'd been tortured with fear.
- Examples of hollowing
- Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / [ …] stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.
Examples of hollow in a Sentence
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