How to Use hollow out in a Sentence

hollow out

phrasal verb
  • The hollowing out of the Lebanese state dates to at least 2005.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Proof that the stack hasn’t been hollowed out to hide drugs.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The stump of a dead tree, left intact, can be hollowed out for a planter or used as the base for a bird bath.
    Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Using a spoon, hollow out the inside of the top half, leaving a 3/4-inch shell.
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
  • Out back, the new bodywork has been hollowed out for a one-third increase in trunk space.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 27 July 2023
  • Like a lot of plains towns, Red Cloud has been hollowed out the last half-century.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • The hollowing out of families leaves only the very wealthy and the very poor.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The larvae hatch and feed inside, hollowing out the twig, which then dies.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Iron Horse Station inn's first floor was hollowed out and layered in mud, but the building still stood.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The neck gets skinnier, eyes appear more hollowed out, cheeks sink.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Louisa, like so many other places in the region, has been hollowed out by opioids.
    Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • To prepare it, hollow out a loaf of French bread, then fill with breakfast favorites like eggs, sausage, and cheese.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The trend would be less obvious if the network-TV slate hadn’t been hollowed out by this summer’s strikes.
    Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Layoffs this week and in December hollowed out the Studios and video teams.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The research also found that a large cavity - 650 feet in height - has now been hollowed out in the center of the grounding line.
    Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • The railroads — hollowed out by years of corporate cost cutting — were buckling in the face of a surge of demand.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • Simply hollow out the core, sauté it in brown sugar and butter, add it back into the apple and wrap it all up in pie dough.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • With few survivors, the Hai Taieb synagogue was hollowed out.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
  • The side panels of the vehicle had also been hollowed out for storage of more bricks of cocaine.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 13 June 2023
  • This is not a rerun of hollowing out experienced in many U.S. cities in the 1960s.
    Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Landmarks made from coral, lava rock and concrete hollowed out by flames.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • According to Boothroyd, the cartridge had been hollowed out and appeared to be re-packed with glass and other debris.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
  • People were slumped over and hollowed out, like characters in a horror movie.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Using an electric citrus juicer will make quick work of hollowing out the lemon, lime and orange halves.
    Tina Martinez, Good Housekeeping, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The hollowing out of the middle is paralleled in many other areas — the end of the midlist book has been the sad story of print publishing.
    Mark Gimein, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The site for the new construction was London’s West India Docks, which was once the largest port in the world but had been hollowed out by containerization.
    Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • The effect of that is the hollowing out of the regional banking industry.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Trump’s transition team also wants to hollow out the E.P.A. itself.
    Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The worst thing to do would be to hollow out the government, cut taxes massively for rich people, and then tax the poor people through tariffs.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Use a paring knife: Take a sharp paring knife and either hollow out a whole apple, cut the apple in half or into quarters, and use the knife to scoop out the centers.
    Patricia S York, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023

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