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hollow Examples

EN[ˈhɒl.əʊ] [ˈhɑ.loʊ] [hɑlɚ] [-ɒləʊ]
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    Examples of hollow in a Sentence

  • Examples of hollow
    1. 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
    2. As the way steepened [ …] I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. — H. Miller.
    3. 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.
    4. A form of these lissoneoids somewhat resemble the trochoidal forms, the latter being more hollow than the former.
    5. 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
    1. 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
    1. His hollowed-eyed visage showed he'd been tortured with fear.
  • Examples of hollowing
    1. Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / [ …] stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.
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