hollow
adjective
having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty.
are hollowing
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present progressiveof hollow.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But opaque AI loans and excessive leverage — ‘credit termites’ — are hollowing out the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
A growing number of towns and villages are hollowing out, with nearly four million homes abandoned over the past two decades, government data released last year showed.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
That, along with increasing labor costs and high gas prices, are hollowing out their margins.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
Today, disasters are hollowing out more small communities and erasing important cultural, historical and religous sites, leaving only painful memories and sometimes nothing.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2020
They are hollowing their trenches and planting their network of wire—which will have to be taken again some day.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
