Used in a Sentence

hollowed

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hollowed.

Editorial note

SF has gone full retard and the result is a hollowed vessel of noise..

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Quick take

having a cavity within

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hollowed gathered in one view.

adjective

having a cavity within

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hollowed.

adjective

having a cavity within

Example sentences

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SF has gone full retard and the result is a hollowed vessel of noise..

2

What's good for San Francisco might be different from what's good for a hollowed our rust belt city.

3

If anything hollowed out Pittsburgh, it was the decline of the steel and manufacturing industries in the area.

4

You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid.

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Post-Snowden it is pretty evident that these rights have been hollowed out to the point where they have become meaningless.

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This might be the time when pushing an asteroid into one of the Lagrange points and hollowed out would be useful.

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I wonder if there will be a progressive 1%, because the progressive middle class is getting hollowed out.

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Something that is not true now: We're facing increased global competition from the East and the west's manufacturing base has been hollowed out.

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Yet these acts of apparent choice have had their meaning hollowed out.

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Personally, I am finished watching my local labor force hollowed out because some version of...

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All are shadows of their former shells, hollowed out by deindustrialization.

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I do not live in the hollowed out, jobless zones of urban economic despair to which many African Americans have been abandoned.

Quote examples

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Like so many other parts of the economy journalism has been "hollowed out" with middlebrow publications like Time suffering the worst.

2

(strong high and low ends to the market and hollowed out middle.) There's challenges: high-end luxury goods that are totally mass produced don't tend to go together, as it feels too "mass market" or low quality (Ferraris have hand sewn leather in the seats, so they are high quality/"feel authentic").

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hollowed in a sentence?

SF has gone full retard and the result is a hollowed vessel of noise..

What does hollowed mean?

having a cavity within

What part of speech is hollowed?

hollowed is commonly used as adjective.