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22 examples of Hollows in a sentence

And then there were kind of large spaces in the hollows between the atoms.
I've seen 3 other Sleepy Hollows, including the most recent one with Johnny Depp, and I still prefer this one.
They were a species of those "rabbit kangaroos" that usually dwell in the hollows of trees and are tremendously fast; but although of moderate dimensions, they at least furnish a meat that's highly prized.
The wooden roof is beginning to rot from the top, and here and there has black hollows in its blue colour.
They are such an extraordinary shape, potatoes - all bumps and warts and hollows.
She continued to gaze towards the mysterious residence, when the gleam of light passed away, and at the same instant the tones of a bugle rang through the glens and hollows, and were reechoed in every direction.
On the contrary, like the waters in the cavities and hollows of mountains, which petrify and turn into stone whatever they are suffered to drop on, so the continual conversing with such a crew of hell-hounds as I was, had the same common operation upon me as upon other people.
The busy and sagacious bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hollows of the trees, offering without usance the plenteous produce of their fragrant toil to every hand.
I cried, awakening by my shouts the echoes of the vaulted hollows of the earth.
Across the moor there had ridden a black-coated gentleman, with buff-topped hunting-boots and a couple of grooms behind him, the little knot of horsemen showing up clearly upon the curving swells and then dipping down into the alternate hollows.
"But what will you make your omelet in?" asked Herbert; "in your hat?""Well!" replied the sailor, "I am not quite conjuror enough for that; we must come down to eggs in the shell, my boy, and I will undertake to despatch the hardest!"Pencroft and Herbert attentively examined the cavities in the granite, and they really found eggs in some of the hollows.
Herbert had found some salt deposited by evaporation in the hollows of the rocks, and this mineral was very welcome.
No smoke escaped from its sides; not a flame could be seen in the dark hollows; not a roar, not a mutter, no trembling even issued from this black well, which perhaps reached far into the bowels of the earth.
They viewed it in its tout-ensemble, nothing remained concealed but the ground hidden by verdure, the hollows of the valleys, and the interior of the volcanic chasms.
When he had passed the forest, a vast expanse of velvety green unrolled before him without a single bare spot, and only sprinkled here and there in the hollows with patches of unmelted snow.
To sweep down hills and plunge into the valley hollows ; to cover as on wings the far stretches of the road ahead and to find them in bloom at your approach ; to pass through a village in a moment, and to take it all with you in one glance ... in dreams only, till then, had I known such a delightful, such an easy way of getting about.
And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
Wet above his hips hewaded from pool to pool, recognizing the likeliest spots at a glance,and searching all the hollows hidden under sea-weed, with a steadyslow sweep of his net.
Then the wretched man, unable to break his collar, like that of a chained wild beast, became tranquil once more; only at intervals a sigh of rage heaved the hollows of his chest.
In fact, on the right, on the left, and in front, dark forms were evident, making their way carefully toward sandy hollows.
They started about dusk, and, passing beyond the wall, through hollows overgrown with reeds, reached the vineyard in a wild and lonely place.
The black hair, long and dry, was pressed tightly about the forehead, and half veiled the green hollows of the cheeks; and yet I recognised in this face the joyous white and rose face that I had seen so often.