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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• The effect hollows out his tone and emphasizes the consonants and breaths in his performance.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
• About 1,900 years ago, someone in what is now the Netherlands hollowed out a sheep or goat femur, filled it with poisonous, hallucinogenic black seeds and sealed it with tar.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• The strikes, the streaming platforms, a perfect storm has impacted Hollywood… which in turn has hollowed out the idea of storytelling.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
• Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, on vacation decades ago, walk in dreamlike slow motion in black-and-white along the sidewalk of a downtown now hollowed out and half-abandoned.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025