How do you use Hollow in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like empty or solid, plus the exact meaning.
Hollow in a sentence
Related words
Hollow meaning
- A small valley between mountains.
- A sunken area on a surface.
- An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
Synonyms of Hollow
Using Hollow
- The main meaning on this page is: A small valley between mountains. | A sunken area on a surface. | An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- Useful related words include: empty, solid, vasiform, tube-shaped.
- In the example corpus, hollow often appears in combinations such as: sleepy hollow, the hollow, hollow road.
Context around Hollow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hollow
- In this selection, "hollow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sleepy, pine, full, road, cathode and hearted stand out and add context to how "hollow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 628 sleepy hollow road and 84 sleepy hollow road sleepy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hollow" sits close to words such as cleaned, contenders and dump, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hollow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As for the latter threat, it just sounds like hollow posturing. (11 words)
A mural of shipbuilding workers at Brickyard Hollow’s Portland location on Commercial Street. (14 words)
I was afraid they would try to hold me and discover that I was hollow, just a hollow man'. (19 words)
The Hammer influence was further confirmed by the casting of Christopher Lee in a small role as the Burgomaster who sends Crane to Sleepy Hollow. citation Filming Supervised by Heinrichs, the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed around a small duck pond. (42 words)
Located at 8440 Courthouse Square E, in Douglasville, this new challenge comes from the experienced folks already offering The Bunker, The Dig, and The Cabin, at Escape Woods in Sleepy Hollow Farms north of town at 628 Sleepy Hollow Road. (40 words)
As Pop sang the lyrics to “The Passenger” (“I see the stars come out tonight, I see the bright and hollow sky”), a few flickers of lightning struck far in the distance and his sound cut out sporadically. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hollow cathode lamp (HCL) Hollow cathode lamps Hollow cathode lamps (HCL) are the most common radiation source in LS AAS.
A DA for five cabins and an eco-tourist resort at 84 Sleepy Hollow Road, Sleepy Hollow was refused at the Tweed Council planning meeting (5 October, 2023).
Attached is the original 1957 real estate flyer for the Pine Hollow Garden subdivision located at Mitchell Canyon and Pine Hollow Road in Clayton.
The object retrieved, a long, cylindrical and hollow thing, was initially suspected to be a bomb, possibly a shell dating back to World War 2, given that it appeared to be hollow.
I was afraid they would try to hold me and discover that I was hollow, just a hollow man'.
In his book World Top Secret: Our Earth IS Hollow, author Rodney Cluff describes a hollow interior with its own central Sun.
A number of hollow-hearted men, who mistook an interest in criminal statistics for philanthropy, as all hollow-hearted men are prone to do, brought an unhappy woman before him to be judged.
Located at 8440 Courthouse Square E, in Douglasville, this new challenge comes from the experienced folks already offering The Bunker, The Dig, and The Cabin, at Escape Woods in Sleepy Hollow Farms north of town at 628 Sleepy Hollow Road.
As opposed to playing it on a flat or uneven terrain, the terrain is made smooth but hollow (tra just means "hollow road" in Flemish).
Full hollow-body guitar main Full hollow-body guitars have large, deep bodies made of glued-together sheets, or "plates", of wood.
Hollow-post mill In a hollow-post mill, the post on which the body is mounted is hollowed out, to accommodate the drive shaft.
If the hollow is properly shaped (usually conically), the enormous pressure generated by the detonation of the explosive drives the liner in the hollow cavity inward to collapse upon its central axis.
Mount Pleasant Paramedics provides advanced life support. citation In popular culture * Sleepy Hollow is the setting of Washington Irving 's 1820 short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " and its many adaptations in other media.
Shklovsky's "Hollow Phobos" hypothesis In the late 1950s and 1960s, the unusual orbital characteristics of Phobos led to speculations that it might be hollow.
The Hammer influence was further confirmed by the casting of Christopher Lee in a small role as the Burgomaster who sends Crane to Sleepy Hollow. citation Filming Supervised by Heinrichs, the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed around a small duck pond.
A mural of shipbuilding workers at Brickyard Hollow’s Portland location on Commercial Street.
And then, as he’s wont to do, Biden wandered off script and began talking about last year’s Fern Hollow bridge collapse, which sent four people to the hospital.
As for the latter threat, it just sounds like hollow posturing.
As Pop sang the lyrics to “The Passenger” (“I see the stars come out tonight, I see the bright and hollow sky”), a few flickers of lightning struck far in the distance and his sound cut out sporadically.
At 12:29am Sunday, March 5, the Bell County Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire located in Jenson Hollow just off Highway 221. The fire department contained the blaze to one room.
Common combinations with hollow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: