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  • noun Plural form of hollow.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hollow.

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Examples

  • Crouched in one of the hollows is my cottage with the table in it.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • Crouched in one of the hollows is my cottage with the table in it.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • 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.

    Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

  • 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.

    Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

  • Birds will take cover in hollows or depressions out of the bluster, where they can hear.

    Bad-Weather Birds 2004

  • Birds will take cover in hollows or depressions out of the bluster, where they can hear.

    How To Hunt Turkeys In the Rain and Wind 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

    Expedition into Central Australia 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.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Swap? 2009

  • And in the hollows are the grape hyacinths, purple as noon, with the heavy, sensual fragrance of noon.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

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