hollow 的 5 个定义
hol·low·er, hol·low·est.
- having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- having a depression or concavity: a hollow surface.
- sunken, as the cheeks or eyes.
- (7)
- an empty space within anything; a hole, depression, or cavity.
- a valley: They took the sheep to graze in the hollow.
- Foundry. a concavity connecting two surfaces otherwise intersecting at an obtuse angle.
- to make hollow: to hollow out a log.
- to form by making something hollow: to hollow a place in the sand; boats hollowed out of logs.
- to become hollow.
- in a hollow manner: The politician's accusations rang hollow.
hollow 近义词
empty, hollowed out
deep, resonant in sound
meaningless
false, artificial
empty or dented area
empty out; make concave
更多hollow例句
- Even our hospitals are being taken over and hollowed out by Wall Street.
- For some, the announcement back in March that he would pick a woman started to ring hollow the longer the search dragged on.
- These hornets nest in hollow trees and cozy nooks within walls.
- He liked to play in a hollow tree where insect-eating bats used to live.
- The explanation for these landmines mainly related to the use of hollow cast iron balls that were presumably filled with gunpowder.
- The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.
- But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.
- He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!”
- It will always ring hollow when people try to turn it into a product—no matter how much Bill Clinton gushes over it.
- Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.
- The next instruments discovered in use among the Indians were straight, hollow reeds and forked canes.
- It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.
- The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.
- But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.
- That hollow is a very likely place for one of them to run along, therefore the best shot among you had better go up there.