Hollow in a sentence as a noun

Some hollow, BS claim to motivate their employees.

Instead, it's the same old story, of hollow husks of buildings constructed.

In fact calling those "hollow rewards" at all is ridiculous.

Polaroid is pretty much a hollow shell used to market white label products these days.

Hollow in a sentence as a verb

"Sure, we had to work until midnight, but there was pizza" rings a bit hollow when you are older, have kids or other forms of life outside work.

I cannot understand our misplaced, hollow pride in not adopting something which simply works better.

"It's all well and good to want a level playing field, but when you've spend the last century digging everyone else into gigantic holes, it kind of rings a little hollow.

It's of course completely hollow and meaningless, and ultimately self-defeating.

Hollow in a sentence as an adjective

Doctors use special, hollow needles to extract little bits of bone marrow from your hip, and because the needles are small it does require a lot of sticks to collect enough marrow for a transplant.

I started getting weird symptoms - my chest often felt hollow, I'd get weird pains across the tops of my shoulders and through my neck, and occasionally, I would have to stop while walking up a flight of stairs.

You are pissing people off and what do you have to show for it except a few hollow victories?If copyright infringement through file sharing has decreased, it's due to itunes, amazon, google, and all the smaller companies offering digital versions of content.

Hollow definitions

noun

a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

noun

a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"

See also: holler

noun

a depression hollowed out of solid matter

See also: hole

verb

remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

See also: excavate

verb

remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

adjective

not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"

adjective

as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"

adjective

devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"

See also: empty vacuous