I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false/empty/hollow promise (= one that will not be kept )
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I didn’t make any false promises.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cheek
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Even with all this, the hollow cheeks , the scalp withered, you could still see how handsome Hugh had been.
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White-faced, with a three-day-old beard, hollow cheeks and staring eyes, Sikes looked like a ghost.
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Its flame showed up her hollow cheeks , the haunted eyes.
ring
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But the famous Bongs! will have a hollow ring for millions of soccer fans anxiously waiting for news of their teams.
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It resembles a hollow ring of land surrounded by scattered archipelagos.
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The thought had a hollow ring to it.
sound
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For those widowed or bereaved in other ways, victory must have had a hollow sound .
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The hollow sound of the key in the lock.
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The hollow sound was the beginning of the game, not the end.
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The hollow sounds of doors banging and footsteps receding echoed in her ears as she stepped inside the sparsely furnished room.
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But within a couple of pages, it's back to the hollow sound of random jottings.
tree
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They left messages in a hollow tree on Seacroft estate.
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A half-dozen anonymous workers scout ahead to check possible hive locations in hollow trees or wall cavities.
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Bats roost naturally both in caves and hollow trees .
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Those seen in the spring will have hibernated over the winter in garden sheds or hollow trees .
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Whatever happened to Shurll, Jane wondered - did she go and live in a hollow tree ?
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Like nearly all the other forty-five species, they nest in hollow trees .
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Not a single bird sings in the dry, hollow trees .
tube
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Rear Suspension - Two transverse torsion bars are located within a hollow tube and operated by trailing arms.
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The tip of this hollow tube is guided up into the internal carotid.
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Filled with small seeds, the hollow tube becomes a rattle.
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In fact its feathered section is a hollow tube .
victory
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If he had been absent I would have looked upon it as something of a hollow victory .
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He thought how sorry he felt for Grover, stuck with his hollow victories .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ring hollow
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His assurances that things will change rang hollow.
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Apart from a bit of woodworm, the beam seemed solid enough, but the panel rang hollow.
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But its claim to have performed better than the Communist party did in 1950 rings hollow.
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But once the events began, his image rang hollow for some.
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Such events will ring hollow if they are not markers for some-thing larger and deeper that is going on in the school.
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Summerchild taps on the hardboard divisions to demonstrate their solidity and stops at once when they ring hollow.
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The Republicans put on an intimidating show, as they always intended, but it somehow rang hollow.
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Their footsteps rang hollow in the register office like a bad comic going off stage.
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These arguments ring hollow because they misunderstand the mode of responsibility in question.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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hollow threats
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The bread should sound hollow when you tap the bottom.
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The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes, whose colour she could not determine.
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After all, the only connections between the two were a metal chain and a hollow rubber tube.
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But there was something hollow about the whole experience.
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But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier, and were certainly less widespread.
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How can I insulate the hollow door?
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The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fill the hollow with the cream cheese mixture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Down in this hollow the sky seemed darker, the wind colder.
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He built a corral in a hollow across the river and made two small ponies from mud.
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His hands whispered over her, light as silk, seeking out every pale hollow and rounded slope.
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If the resultant hollow in the neck is really severe it might require a form of heat treatment to rectify the situation.
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Nearly all the men in the hollow were wounded, one man frightfully so, his arm being cut short off.
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Springs had erupted in every hollow , and every path was a rivulet.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are you aware of how we kill and hollow out your relatives?
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Ask a grown-up to help you hollow out the centre of the carrot.
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Some horses are naturally more sensitive than others and the rider's weight causes them to hollow and stiffen.