Example Sentences

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Hollowness was certainly the point of the film, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to box office success.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2015

They breed like a long Thing shap'd like a Snake, but containing a sort of Joints, in the Hollowness whereof are thousands of small Coaks, no bigger then small Grains of Pepper.

From A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. by Lawson, John

Hollowness, insincerity has to cease; sincerity of some sort has to begin.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas