Example Sentences

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Instead, they appeared along the sides of the ridges and within the sandy hollows between them.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025

These include tree planting or the digging of dips and hollows into the landscape, but are often hampered because a large proportion of river catchments are on private land.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Little Hobart Street led up into one of those hollows so deep and narrow that people joked you had to pipe in the sunlight.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls