How to Use hollow out in a Sentence

hollow out

verb
  • The middle class is getting hollowed out.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • The savings go straight to the top while hollowing out the middle class.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Carefully hollow out the insides of rolls.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2026
  • In a way, this is appropriate for a movie about a woman who feels as though she’s been hollowed out inside.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The group said this could end up hollowing out the Forest Service.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The demolition of public housing less than a decade before hollowed out a town already on its knees.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The middle, where the bulk of professional women sit, is being hollowed out.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • Across the country, shrinking local newsrooms have hollowed out beat reporting for years.
    — Ava Dzurenda, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026
  • STRs have hollowed out our coastal communities; homes should be for neighbors, not tourists.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • What was once an old Provençal farmhouse has been hollowed out into a series of cavernous underground galleries.
    — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 25 May 2026
  • An economy hollowed out by corruption.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Their decisions could play a big role in whether the program will be entirely hollowed out or have some ties to the elements that have brought viewers in for years.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 June 2026
  • Advisory councils, which provide a second layer of peer review, have been hollowed out.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some mid-level writers say that the pipeline has already been hollowed out by the overall production contraction.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The voting rights law that had helped a Black child from Baton Rouge become a congressman was about to be hollowed out.
    — Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 26 May 2026
  • Think of it as hollowing out the wood and turning it into a highly porous sponge—but one that still retains its directional structure.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • As the enforcement surge recedes, Frey is trying to knit together a city where businesses and daily life were hollowed out by fear.
    — Julia Terruso, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This tree house goes down rather than up—a few steps will take you into a 20-foot room created by hollowing out the base of a still-living giant redwood stump.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The middle of the market — quality knives at attainable prices, made in America — hollowed out.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • Graft also hollows out basic public services, leaving schools and hospitals short of essential supplies.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Devitt said midpriced sit-downs have been hollowed out recently and face headwinds, especially in Denver.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
  • One of the crown jewels of that struggle, the Voting Rights Act, was hollowed out by a Supreme Court ruling last week.
    — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Research budgets were gutted, marketing hollowed out, suppliers squeezed.
    — Paul Polman, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Sandwiched between these extremes, the middle-income cohort is quietly hollowing out.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 17 June 2026
  • But tourism can also destroy places' souls, hollowing out city centers and leaving empty urban shells whose most striking feature is sheer commercialism.
    — CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • The stocky, square shape is inspired by the traditional Japanese kurinuki technique, where artisans would hollow out a block of clay.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The city still struggles with the fallout from the pandemic, when Downtown was hollowed out, property values and tax revenues fell and have never recovered.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Thousands of reduction-in-force cuts hollowed out divisions and departments, though some of those were reinstated after legal action.
    — Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The options were pretty limited there because the North had been hollowed out by policies that people would call Thatcherism or Reaganism here.
    — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • But the broader narrative that repeated dieting inevitably hollows out lean tissue is not supported by the current body of evidence.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 13, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026

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