How to Use ring hollow in a Sentence

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• From the last month, the moral victories ring hollow once again.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2021
• The robotic and programmed words of politicians ring hollow and don’t work.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• But Gilpin’s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 15 June 2022
• All of the oohs, aahhs and highlight-reels moments will ring hollow if DeChambeau does not reach the winner’s circle.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• But without Scope 3 emissions in those plans, the entire effort can ring hollow.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 15 June 2022
• Asking the winningest head coach in program history (446 victories) about the hows and whys of this one would ring hollow.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2021
• Those words, however, will ring hollow if the problems persist.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• Those words might ring hollow with fans these days, who've endured a rebuild since 2017 on the heels of a team that was constantly in go-for-it mode but never got the World Series title to show for it.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
• The action moves so fast that emotional moments pop up out of nowhere, and Ernestine's responses ring hollow.
  — Dave Quinn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• For some in the industry, though, the proclamations so far ring hollow, lacking detailed strategies.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• Such pleas ring hollow while military aid keeps flowing.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• To people like Brown, James’ words of extreme disappointment ring hollow now.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• Today, the world honors refugees, and celebrates their courage and resilience–but a failure to address a growing crisis means, this year, the words of support may ring hollow.
  — Dianne Calvi, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Those words ring hollow to Steven's grieving mother, Jennifer Freeman.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 24 July 2021
• But Norgaard-Larsen said the leveling of the surrounding desert was not what was promised to residents, and that the promises to revegetate native plants ring hollow.
  — Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• But Hughes’ comment could ring hollow to business leaders and sports leagues that are being pressured to stand up to voter suppression.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
• The earlier threat from the president of confrontation on reform seems to ring hollow as more Americans prepare to bury their dead, killed in the latest hail of gunfire.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 28 May 2021
• But for people living in fence-line communities, those words too often ring hollow.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• But historians say any analysis of the Philippines’ future with a Marcos scion at the helm would ring hollow without a critical eye toward the past.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 May 2022
• But some of those promises ring hollow, advocates say, or have been hard to maintain in a competitive marketplace.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• The claim might ring hollow if societies that call themselves democracies pursue policies that conflict with what their people want.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Special to the Courier Journal Mottos for companies can sometimes ring hollow, a tumble of words that might sound good, but not really mean anything.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2023
• If there are no consequences for failing to live your values, the words ring hollow, and employees will not invest discretionary effort in the company, but rather, simply go through the motions.
  — Sheryl Lyons, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Still, her crisis of conscience leads to actions that ring hollow, to chillingly robotic imitations of true feeling.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
• But to some of the Indigenous people and members of other underrepresented groups that are attending, those claims ring hollow.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Whatever on-paper improvements to the economy Trump and the Republicans can point to will likely ring hollow with those skirting the edge of financial ruin.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2020
• Luiza Dorner, 25, of Kyiv, whose husband is fighting in the Donbas region, said that statements from Zelenskyy and other government officials have started to ring hollow.
  — Lauren Egan, NBC News, 23 June 2022
• But the efforts of those same executives to now stake out the moral high ground ring hollow and insincere, and are so patently unbelievable as to be embarrassing, regardless of what Zucker should or should not have done.
  — Steven Tian, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
• Yet, that act of imitation can often ring hollow in execution.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2022
• While allegations of stifling innovation have sprung up, these charges continue to ring hollow.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 June 2021

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024