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In 1926, Margaret Barnes of Manchester, England, was rifling through her deceased husband’s belongings when she came upon a hollowed-out eggshell.

He likes to talk about the long sweep of urban history, with the postwar suburb boom hollowing them out.

Locals call it the hollowing out of the city into an empty theme park.

Takeovers of foreign companies and government intervention in the markets have spooked investors, hollowing out key industries.

Don Peck, The Atlantic The Great Recession has accelerated the hollowing-out of the American middle class.

To hollow-out eyes past any reasonable point of eye hollowing-out.

The hollowing of the "shell" is seemingly less delicate, but this may be taken as a natural result of the foregoing.

The graves were constructed by hollowing out a portion of the rock at the side of the gallery, large enough to contain the body.

Now the only way in which the rain can be kept from running back on the slope of X is by a bold hollowing out of it upwards, b.

Our horse would be warm enough without that; and Cudjo had made him a trough by hollowing out one of the tulip-trees.

These were split in two, and made into troughs by hollowing the faces and charring them over a fire.