Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollow (out)
Verb
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The 41-year-old shoveled 70.5 hot dogs and buns into his mouth in just 10 minutes.—
Logan Holland,
People.com,
4 July 2025 -
Carlyle shovels her walk and goes home, and the next day learns that Elizabeth Reuben committed suicide by leaving the gas on the night before.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Verb
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From 2004 to 2009, a team excavated the Neumark-Nord 2 site year-round, even training over 175 international students in the process.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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In time, settlers would excavate and plunder countless ancestral ruins across the Southwest, with artifacts carried off to private collections and museum displays.—
Mike Bezemek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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“Hollow (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollow%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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