How to Use hollow out in a Sentence

hollow out

phrasal verb
Definition of hollow outnext
  • While the structure had been empty for years, timber and lathe were all the fire needed to hollow out the building, which Heggstrom said lacked modern fire-suppression capabilities and fire alarms.
    — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 16 June 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Kendall is once again out by the water, hollowed out, emotionally drowning.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Their meanings are hollowed out; their signifiers are piled up into a thing without a center.
    — Adlan Jackson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the pandemic and the wave of remote work hollowed out its skyscrapers and helped shutter many restaurants and businesses that relied on crowds of workers.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Perhaps most of all for the Biden administration, Ukraine is hollowing out the army of one of America’s biggest foes.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Chicago, like many other cities in the US, has been struggling to fill empty offices after the pandemic hollowed out downtowns.
    — Shruti Date Singh, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Their jagged, winding paths hollow out portions of the gritty ceramic surface.
    — Renée Reizman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The MacArthur Foundation is leading a group of donors that have pledged $500 million to help the struggling local news industry, hoping to seed outlets that can make up for those that have closed or been hollowed out over the past two decades.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023

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