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Meanings of hollow in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dig"
Examples for "dig"
1
Rob didn't know what to expect at the dig, following the 'accident'.
2
For example, we'll need to dig into this whole Kahverengi International matter.
3
Here it is; you may follow us while we dig it out:
4
Some of the survivors were compelled to dig graves for the seven.
5
I dig down looking for things that existed a long time ago.'
1
Too often it has taken a hammer and chisel to excavate words.
2
Professor Karim Sadr led a team of achaeologists to excavate the area.
3
They excavate with their broad-webbed paws deep holes in the fine sand.
4
One more buried relic to excavate as soon as I had time.
5
Their goal was to excavate Barbara Ayers's grave and recover her body.
Usage of hollow in English
1
At mean high tide, however, the hollow was an altogether different place.
2
Fire in the inn was kindled in the hollow of the ground.
3
See Sièyes; he has the Ancients in the hollow of his hand.
4
To nobody's great surprise, it was clear that Rama must be hollow.
5
The remainder of the cavalry waited in the hollow behind the guns.
6
THE Hermit lived in a cave in the hollow of a hill.
7
These aren't just hollow words that we repeat from generation to generation.
8
When those words are played back now they sound rather different, hollow.
9
The question came to him as though through a long, hollow tube.
10
He lay in a hollow near the mouth of the river Bush.
11
The Group of 20's pledge to refrain from currency wars rings hollow.
12
The rush of the stream in the hollow had an eerie sound.
13
For he recognized the hollow in the chalk-thegnarled thorn-thewide outlook.
14
However, to many within our community, these pledges rang hollow and performative.
15
You could change any one for the other: hollow coughs, long beards.
16
Even in our district the dead were sometimes placed in hollow trees.
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Hollow through the time
Hollow across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common
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