Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
