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On the car ride back, he took my hand from my lap and pressed his thumb into the doughy part of my palm as if he were hollowing out a spot to plant a seed.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022

"Her father and brothers were so sure she was going to die," Dr. Smith recalls, "that they were hollowing out a log for her casket."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some were taking away in wheelbarrows the rubbish which filled the ditch; others were hollowing out the earth with spades.

From The Daughter of the Commandant by Milne-Home, Mary Pamela

I was standing under an apple-tree, watching a pair of titmice who were hollowing out a stub for a nest, when my ear caught a novel song not far away.

From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford

Two slaves, brought home prisoners by a war party, were hollowing out a dugout, which the Powhatans used instead of the birchbark canoes preferred by other tribes.

From The Princess Pocahontas by Edwards, George Wharton