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Origin of hollow tile

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby hollow tile

hollow-forge, hollow-ground, hollow leg, hollow newel, hollow sea, hollow tile, hollowware, holluschick, holly, hollyhock, holly oak

How to use hollow tile in a sentence

The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.
The Congo's Forgotten Colonial Getaway|Nina Strochlic|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession|Pauline Kael|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He pressed a hollow shell casing into my palm and leaned towards my ear, “I PICKED IT UP FROM THE BEDROOM!”
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It will always ring hollow when people try to turn it into a product—no matter how much Bill Clinton gushes over it.
How One Lawsuit Shows What’s Wrong With America|James Poulos|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Tile work in the bathrooms, furniture, and artwork on the walls all flowed together and carried his creative touch.
When Gary Wright Met George Harrison: Dream Weaver, John and Yoko, and More|Gary Wright|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The next instruments discovered in use among the Indians were straight, hollow reeds and forked canes.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
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.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
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.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne