Explore Hollowing through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hollowing in a sentence
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Hollowing meaning
present participle and gerund of hollow
Using Hollowing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of hollow
- In the example corpus, hollowing often appears in combinations such as: hollowing out, the hollowing.
Context around Hollowing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hollowing
- In this selection, "hollowing" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, broader, stop and presidency stand out and add context to how "hollowing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a broader hollowing out of and and a hollowing out of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hollowing" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hollowing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Short-term rentals are hollowing out Black neighborhoods. (8 words)
The scholar warns against underestimating women who have undergone this hollowing. (11 words)
Hollowing out the logs increased buoyancy (increasing payload) while preserving stability. (11 words)
One of my top priorities if elected to Congress would be to begin to correct the mistakes of the last few years by adequately resourcing our military to meet the challenges ahead and reverse its hollowing out based on short-term budget politics in DC. (45 words)
Rep. Johnson said FCC licenses don't confer property rights and that while he was all behind speeding 5G, he said he was focused on those without basic broadband access, which he said was hollowing out communities in his district and nationwide. (42 words)
Trump has also spent his presidency hollowing out important American institutions — most notably bending and breaking the Department of Justice to short-circuit investigations of his cronies while using it as a weapon against his perceived enemies. (37 words)
Example sentences (15)
Short-term rentals are hollowing out Black neighborhoods.
If we only engage the people who are currently voting, we’re going to continue seeing the kind of state government that is leading to the hollowing out of rural communities and leaving people behind.
Parliament’s hollowing out can only be checked, and reversed, by a successful electoral challenge to the Modi personality cult.
The two of the company’s co-founders had quit amid a broader hollowing out of its senior management cadre.
Time to stop hollowing out our education and maybe we begin to regret being addicted to smartphones.
The United States and the rest of the West is becoming Third Worldized, beset by ever-rising inequality and a hollowing out of the public sphere.
Trump has also spent his presidency hollowing out important American institutions — most notably bending and breaking the Department of Justice to short-circuit investigations of his cronies while using it as a weapon against his perceived enemies.
Alton Gas intends to create 2-15 underground caverns for the storage of natural gas by hollowing out existing salt deposits.
Rep. Johnson said FCC licenses don't confer property rights and that while he was all behind speeding 5G, he said he was focused on those without basic broadband access, which he said was hollowing out communities in his district and nationwide.
The scholar warns against underestimating women who have undergone this hollowing.
All this reflects the continued hollowing out of our political language, in which words often generate emotion without producing meaning.
As a result, the measures may contribute to the further "hollowing out" of middle-class incomes, it said.
One of my top priorities if elected to Congress would be to begin to correct the mistakes of the last few years by adequately resourcing our military to meet the challenges ahead and reverse its hollowing out based on short-term budget politics in DC.
Hollowing out the logs increased buoyancy (increasing payload) while preserving stability.
Their concept involved the hollowing out of a stick of juniper wood.
Common combinations with hollowing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: