Hollows

Word HOLLOWS
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Definitions and meanings of "Hollows"

What do we mean by hollows?

A small valley between mountains.

A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

A sunken area.

A feeling of emptiness.

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The word "hollows" in example sentences

Crouched in one of the hollows is my cottage with the table in it. ❋ Unknown (1922)

On the sides of the hills are owls and burrowing owls (Strix) which live in hollows they make in the ground: clouds of robins (Turdus) and green and violet grackles; sparrows (Fringilla) with thick blue beaks; pheasants (Fatianus) etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Birds will take cover in hollows or depressions out of the bluster, where they can hear. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still our situation was very precarious, and we were risking a great deal by thus pushing forward, for although I call the hollows (in which we found the water) ponds, they were strictly speaking the dregs only of what had been such, and were thick, black, and muddy; but the present aspect of the country led us to hope for a favourable change, and on the morning of the ❋ Charles Sturt (1832)

The Entrance of ye house is an ascent of severall steps into a hall so lofty the rooff is three storyes, reaches to ye floore of ye gallery – all the walls are Cutt in hollows where statues and Heads Carved ffinely are sett, Directly fore-right Enters a large Dineing roome or great parlour, which has a door thourough into the garden yt gives a visto through ye house: within yt is a drawing room, on ye other side another roome of the same size, and backward is a little parlour all with good ffurniture, tapistry, Damaske, &c. ❋ Unknown (1888)

For someone who represents a rural district like that, he’s surprisingly good on Internet issues – I think he hopes that the Web can bring educational and commercial opportunities to the mountain hollows of his district. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in the hollows are the grape hyacinths, purple as noon, with the heavy, sensual fragrance of noon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His face was thin and gray -- with the pallor of the prison still upon it; his cheeks were sunken, and the heavy stubble of beard that filled the hollows was a dirty white. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

The worst is there is little water, so that a person might almost perish there of thirst; the snow-water, however, when it runs into the hollows is the most delicious beverage ever tasted -- the snow, however, is very high up. ❋ Clement King Shorter (1891)

This tableland is not so flat that all of it can be seen at once, but here and there are little dells, shaped like deep basins, which the country folk call hollows; and every now and then there is a rock or hillock covered with yellow gorse bushes, from the top of which can be seen the wide, outspread plains, where hundreds of sheep and ponies are feeding, which belong to the farmers and cottagers dwelling in the valley below. ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)

The dams at the head of the valleys (known locally as "hollows") that fill the steep valleys with the rubble and other fill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A considerable amount of valuable wood is lost when large trees are felled across obstacles on the ground such as hollows (1), ridges ❋ Unknown (1989)

[36-1] Note the word "hollows" with reference to the contention that ❋ Various (1884)

The thoroughpin is found at the back and on the top of the hock in that part known as the "hollows," immediately behind the shank bone. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

Jephthah's daughter, among the 'hollows' and along the sides of the Green ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

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