| On Jan. 27, searchers recorded pairs of loud raps, as if a huge woodpecker were drumming on a hollow tree. |
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| It is a slippery path, at the bottom of which lies a hollow curriculum, devoid of meaningful content. |
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| The roof rests on a glulam substructure supported on concrete posts with glass panels fixed to hollow steel sections. |
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| In the region under dispute were several bee trees which the settlers valued because of the honey stored in the hollow trunks. |
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| A snake slithered over its flowing contours, settling into a small hollow beneath the mound. |
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| He walked over to a tree with a hollow in it, and pulled out a large bag with something long and thin in it. |
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| This group has a great diversity of roosting habits, including caves, hollow logs, tree branches, tunnels, and human houses. |
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| She left the road again and ran until she found another sheltered hollow in the trees and sumac, where she lay down and waited. |
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| Blood vessels are essentially hollow tubes that carry blood to the organs and tissues throughout your body. |
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| Here, the railing separates from the wall creating a hollow space with ample daylight filtering in through a skylight directly above. |
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| Nick handed both men long rounded metal blades, hollow inside, attached to intricately carved handles. |
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| Yamasaki used another method, which essentially made the building a hollow steel tube. |
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| The framework is basically a hollow cylinder of collagenous connective tissue, the skin. |
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| A broken bone with a hollow space inside indicated that the creature was a carnivore, but yielded few other clues. |
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| The cochlea is a coiled, hollow tube inside the inner ear that enables us to hear. |
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| Nests are located inside high, hollow branches, well outside the range of land-bound predators. |
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| Newspapers, overdue bills, grocery lists, and scraps paper filled the hollow space. |
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| The surveys concluded that the tree's trunk was essentially hollow and there were large areas of deadwood within its crown. |
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| He could barely see them, as they were tucked away inside of a giant hollow tree. |
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| They had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks, and they wailed horribly in the darkness. |
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| His angular face, with its long, sloping, jaw line, narrow chin and hollow cheeks, suggests the fragility of china. |
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| His cheeks were slightly more hollow compared to the last time she had saw him, and his hair was longer. |
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| He was very handsome, except for the pale skin that was turning brown and the sunken cheeks and other visible hollow or gaunt areas. |
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| Then images of children with bloated bellies, hollow cheeks, and heavy-lidded eyes will begin to go around the world. |
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| She looks as though she neither ate nor slept during the entire shoot, with her dark-circled eyes, gaunt frame, and hollow cheeks. |
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| The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks. |
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| They are generally in blue, green, white or occasionally amethyst glass, and are often cut with shallow, concave hollow diamonds. |
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| He's skinny and angular, with a hollow face, jaundiced skin, sunken black eyes and a flaxen mop. |
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| The large wooden doors closed behind him automatically with a hollow boom, not unlike the sound of a tomb being shut. |
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| A few more hollow noises that sounded like metal on metal made him certain. |
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| She turned as she heard hollow footsteps echo through the temple, and saw James approaching her door. |
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| Bake until biscuits are golden on top and bottom and sound hollow when tapped, about 10 minutes. |
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| There is a call for peaceful direct action that could leave the hardliners with a certain but hollow victory when the election results come in. |
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| Parents fighting the closure of their children's junior school won a hollow victory at London's Appeal Court last night. |
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| Fielding women candidates can be a hollow victory if they are not resourced to campaign effectively and confidently. |
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| Does not the claim of the government which claims to promote travel and tourism appear hollow to you? |
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| If Colin wins his case, I feel it will be a hollow victory for him, whether or not he realizes this now. |
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| In the face of his failure to do anything about the carnage of past months, his promise to preserve national unity has a somewhat hollow sound. |
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| He is from all appearances, an utterly hollow man whose every action belies the religion he wears on his sleeve. |
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| The Forest Service's argument, however, sounded hollow to many wilderness advocates. |
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| And we should try to ignore the hollow laughter at that description from those who use it every day. |
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| Those of us with our eye on the ball know that the promise of a technology-supported, Utopian future is a hollow one. |
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| The promise of new jobs rings somewhat hollow to a community with an unemployment rate well below the national average. |
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| The first item on that shopping list will trigger hollow laughter among the rest of the world's steel makers. |
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| Is Williams's redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise? |
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| The hollow in the stone was about 20 centimetres in diameter and about 30 centimetres deep. |
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| They are cavity-nesters, finding a natural hollow in a tree, an old woodpecker hole, a hole in a building, or a man-made nest box. |
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| He dug snow away from its end, and from within a hollow in the log retrieved two wooden barbed spears. |
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| She had hid for a time within the hollow of the oak tree as pursuers raced through the forest looking for her. |
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| At times, the puppies hide in the hollow of a tree, under which they have created a burrow, he adds, explaining some aspects of their behaviour. |
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| Pick it up and you discover underneath, nestled in a cutout hollow of thick cardboard, a smaller book! |
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| I pulled the small piece of parchment from within the hollow of the band and handed it to Janet for her to read out loud. |
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| It was a quaint little place, nestled in a hollow in the hills, and smoke rose cozily out of the chimneys of the houses. |
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| Once a bustling coastal township it is now a sleepy hollow with a beautiful beach, a school, and a church. |
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| Directly to my left, a rectangular plantation almost ready for harvest stretches to the next hollow like a roll of teased Astroturf. |
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| An award-winning cabin in Monteagle is nestled in a Tennessee mountain hollow and projects from the hillside to overlook a mountain stream. |
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| The famous Surprise View is a great hollow with valleys leading north and south and moorland roads climbing out. |
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| Nestled in a hollow at Hunters Point, right up against the bay, we found our goal. |
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| Set in three-quarters of an acre, derelict Lambs Barton Stables nestle amid landscaped gardens in a hollow of land with sea views. |
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| However, to hollow out the glacial boulders, made of Vermont granite, he used a high-intensity blowtorch. |
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| Kerala's Shiva Priya's dream run came to an end in the 63 kg division where Asian champion Aruna Mishra beat her hollow in the first round. |
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| A hollow candle is stuck into the ear and lit, allegedly sucking out earwax and negative energy. |
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| The hollow rabbit had a layer of white chocolate covered with milk chocolate. |
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| I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick. |
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| Before Europeans arrived in North America, chimney swifts nested in the old giant hollow trees of the forest. |
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| A normal heart is divided into four hollow chambers, two on the right and two on the left. |
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| Inside the shell is a thin brown coat, the testa, which adheres firmly to the kernel, which is hollow and contains liquid. |
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| During drilling a hollow steel core barrel with an inner rod with pointed tip was hammered into the sand by percussion and hydraulic pressure. |
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| The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point. |
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| Most rods are made from hollow tapering tubes from a mixture of carbon and glass fibres bonded by a resin. |
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| His tenure closed with a win at Hampden, but it was a hollow victory as faint hopes of qualification for the next World Cup were extinguished. |
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| Visceral pain originates in hollow organs and frequently presents as colic. |
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| They're so enormous, so stratospheric, so downright farcical that all I can offer in response is a kind of hollow laugh. |
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| A hollow cylindrical column bearing a compressive load can fail by local buckling. |
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| Consequently too many of the 2002 clarets I tasted had unpleasant bitter green tannins, hollow watery palates and dull finishes. |
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| After blurring the lines between good and evil so skillfully, this ending comes as a somewhat hollow conclusion. |
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| Without pause, he grabbed the tree branch and pulled himself up into the hollow of the tree. |
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| With a hollow clink, it once more sat at its customary place, the level of liquid lowered. |
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| It showed that even the hollow and the imaginary can demonstrate some form of hypochondriasis. |
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| Eventually they learnt to leave a full bucket of water outdoors until it had frozen solid and then hollow out the block of ice. |
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| Far above us, the grey clouds got sick of threatening and decided to act, and a hollow boom of thunder sounded. |
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| The battery extension assembly includes a hollow cylindroid body, a confining structure and an elastic holding member. |
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| Tophet was a huge hollow idol in which the Canaanites would set a blazing fire. |
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| Down in the hollow just north of me are three deer feeding along the field edge. |
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| Those found in the Indo-Pacific are considered to have the most active venom, in the modified hollow spines at the tips of their dorsal fins. |
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| The echoes of our footsteps bounce off the bare walls of the hollow structure. |
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| Indignance doesn't give back, remaining as hollow as dime store chocolate rabbits. |
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| The crown and back comprise a single element separated by a hollow space joined by brazing the parts together. |
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| I think of it as arising from pain fibers that are not mucosal but deeper in hollow organs or in solid masses. |
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| There, he fitted the tied brushes in the bamboo poles and changed hollow brushes into solid brushes. |
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| Furthermore, the hollow body is a solid-drawn steel tube which is provided with a plurality of longish recesses. |
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| You'll see their vacuous smiles, but their sad eyes will betray how hollow and unhappy they really are. |
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| A hollow sound indicates that the veneer is not fixed soundly and further work is required. |
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| Often a broody cockatiel hen ready to lay eggs will tear paper at the bottom of her cage to prepare a bare, hollow impression for her eggs. |
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| In the deluxe version, the brain was generally extracted down the nose and the entrails removed before the hollow body was dried out with salts. |
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| A variety of minerals were deposited in the hollow vesicles, including chlorite, prehnite, quartz, epidote, microcline, and pumpellyite. |
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| In abdominal disease the symptom is particularly associated with rapid enlargement of an encapsulated organ or distension of a hollow viscus. |
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| Opening the lid, however, reveals no hollow volume inside, but only the top layer of stacked plywood. |
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| On the contrary it extends to any roof structure involving the use of hollow plastic extruded elements. |
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| Of the extrusion alloys, only AZ80A is not extruded into hollow shapes or tubing. |
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| A feature recognition methodology is presented, based on wire frame solid modeler, to recognize hollow or solid extrudable components. |
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| On most males, the fabric will drape down from the shoulder area to provide a convenient hollow behind the hip. |
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| The red squirrel's home is a drey, which is a hollow ball made of twigs and leaves in a fork amongst the branches close to the trunk of a tree. |
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| The outer-rotor in-wheel motor, however, uses a hollow doughnut construction that locates the rotor outside the stator. |
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| The idea behind the hollow base was to make it easy for the bullet to obturate and fully engrave the rifling at the very low pressures involved. |
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| By placing that plastic ball in the hollow base of the Foster slug, concentric obturation of the slug in the bore is achieved. |
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| Block 18 is of whiter material, probably a sandstone, badly eroded, and contains the remains of an octofoil, with hollow center. |
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| He talked for the benefit of the neighbors; his hollow glibbing tones could be heard easily two blocks away. |
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| The Belembautuyan, made from a hollow gourd and strung with taut wire, is a stringed musical instrument native to Guam. |
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| Female Bornean tree hole frogs lay their eggs in the rotting holes of hollow tree stumps so that offspring can grow in a pool of water. |
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| The sound is hollow and muffled throughout the film, and the bass has been cranked up to make up for the overall lack of punch. |
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| The cold, hollow sounds of their steps echoing behind them made the little hairs on the back of his neck rise. |
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| She remembered the dark, cold cavern and the hollow echoes of her footsteps as she walked into its darkness. |
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| It makes a dry rustling sound, and a hollow echo as the cans and harder litter roll away across the dirty tiles. |
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| Without warning, a massive, hollow boom resounded from the ridges up near the front lines. |
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| The sound is hollow and tinny, and the dialogue is often quite difficult to understand. |
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| A deeper read, however, suggests something more complicated, a pattern of embarrassing defeats and hollow victories. |
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| Figs are hollow multiple receptacles lined with numerous male and female florets. |
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| The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state. |
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| The fid is hollow so that a strand can be led into it and fed through the rope. |
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| Around 1800, edge-cutting astragal and hollow planes appeared, although the rebates were still cut using the sash fillister. |
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| The public and the private interfuse here, like Clarence's remarkable image of diamonds flashing in the hollow eyes of skulls. |
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| The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs. |
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| Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl. |
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| The photo below was taken in attempts to show the powder down feathers which outline the furcular hollow and are unique to herons and bitterns. |
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| The blastocyst forms into a hollow ball that implants itself in the uterine lining. |
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| Out of one oven came a complete mini-pumpkin, the hollow inside filled with rice, chestnuts and cured meat. |
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| The site could be in a woody crevice or tree hollow or tucked into a tangle of vines. |
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| The parklike understory turned into rank undergrowth, and the inevitable result was a bushfire that destroyed all the old-growth, hollow trees. |
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| Today, discontent tended to make me think it's all a hollow shell, that perhaps all that effort, all that sacrifice, were not worth my while. |
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| The particles may be carbon fibers, carbon black, carbon whiskers, coated hollow microspheres, or a combination thereof. |
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| As the sound increases in volume, it rattles glass bottles that line the interiors of the hollow metal walls. |
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| The long and midirons have a hollow body, like woods, so more weight can be moved down and back. |
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| As for watermelons, pick the ones minus dents or scratches and a light thump should yield a dull hollow sound. |
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| The beat of the kick drum is the sound of a brass doorknocker thumping outside the vast, hollow halls of limbo. |
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| This is a nasty piece of thin elastic upon which hollow compressed lumps of sugar and colourings are threaded. |
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| The vane guide plate is inserted in the lunular hollow formed by the curved walls of the vane. |
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| Take a heaped tablespoon of the chicken mixture and push a hollow in it with your thumb. |
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| If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff. |
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| The rest of us know this is just propaganda and the terms are just hollow buzzwords that do not match reality of living here. |
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| In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns. |
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| This heating would melt the wax and allow it to be poured off or voided, leaving a hollow mould. |
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| Rangatiratanga is not about going one way down a blind alley to a hollow end. |
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| Kael smirked at the memory and burrowed closer, pressing his face into the hollow of Sully's collarbone. |
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| This conversation was pointless and only awakened the hollow feeling in the pit of his gut and the sensation of helplessness. |
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| Throughout the growing season, hollow vessels in a tree's sapwood, or xylem, conduct water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves. |
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| As he wandered along the road to the bus station he felt strangely hollow and remained silent on the journey to Horsham. |
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| Several large edible crabs have burrowed under the mast and others live inside the hollow structure. |
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| Fixing a hollow force turned out to be a lot more expensive than just maintaining an adequate military. |
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| Dare we keep our fingers crossed that people are waking up to what a hollow man he is? |
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| Foxx can be subtle and funny here, but his performance often feels like a rather hollow if impressive feat of mimicry. |
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| At this stage, the blastula is in the form of a hollow sphere with radial symmetry. |
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| When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks. |
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| When these cattle move side by side in the herd, their hollow horns knock together, producing a characteristic resonant sound. |
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| Smalley was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of closed, hollow cages of carbon atoms known as buckyballs. |
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| A single, consistent bar on a hollow reed, just musical enough to be considered a note. |
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| Drawn beads are produced from a bubble of molten glass that is drawn into a long hollow tube. |
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| Myxozoans, in contrast, form plasmodia or hollow sacs in which infective spores are produced. |
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| Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside. |
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| Most magic tricks are done with specially made gadgets that are deceptively hollow but which look solid. |
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| Males have hollow spurs connected to venom glands on the ankle of each hind leg. |
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| And then Ben's match began, and it was him I cheered for instead, my yells sounding hollow even to my own ears. |
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| The hollow or tubular structures of the urinary system are vulnerable to infection by coliform bacteria. |
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| The empty bathroom flung the words back at me, making them sound like hollow laughter. |
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| Others build dens in hollow logs, under tree roots, or in abandoned buildings. |
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| Colugos are nocturnal, passing the day in dens in hollow trees or suspended from branches. |
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| To give the epidural anaesthetic, the anaesthetist passes a hollow needle into a small space just below the spinal cord. |
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| They fed me on boiled pumpkin, wild rice, little mud fish and river prawns cooked in hollow bamboo tubes. |
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| She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage. |
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| He looked down into the hollow tree and noticed that there was a small shimmer of light at the end. |
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| Eventually only a hollow lined by residual soils above a breccia chimney marks the site of a former salt extrusion. |
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| I can feel anger and bile rising in me, rising up out of the years of desperation and hollow fury. |
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| A thick white coat of hollow hairs provides good insulation from the arctic climate. |
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| The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. |
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| The branched stems are waxy with purple blotches and are hollow between nodes. |
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| Then he built a big fire and skinned the bears, and tried out the fat and poured it into a hollow in the ground. |
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| This anchor is designed for use in wallboard, plaster, or other hollow walls, such as tiled wallboard. |
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| A hollow forged aluminum crown and 30 mm stanchions help keep grams off while still offering maximum rigidity. |
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| Approximately 20 minutes before serving hollow out the core from the bottom of each pear using a melon baller or a Parisian scoop. |
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| Then a hollow needle is inserted into the bone, and a syringe is used to draw out the liquid-like bone marrow. |
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| Won regarded the hollow canal structure as one of the indicators of the close relationship of radiolarians and the Porifera. |
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| The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground. |
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| For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water. |
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| Don't put it in the hollow of the cheek in an attempt to shade your face, or it could end up looking like a dirty smudge. |
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| This lever is hollow to house the shot barrel ramrod, which generally lands on the ground. |
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| In many parts of the world, ants set up house in hollow swellings that form on tree twigs or leaves. |
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| The idea may be a departure from the traditional ruthless image of investment banks, but Robey says it's no hollow promise. |
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| On Boxing Day, the poor did receive money from their masters but in hollow clay pots with a slit in the top. |
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| Konglang taught the crew to cook rice in a length of bamboo and how to hollow out the core of a banana tree for fresh water. |
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| There is a sprinkling of hobblers, plenty of wincers, and almost universal hollow eyes and messed hair. |
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| As I sat in bed and futilely attempted to sleep, I noticed a deep rumbling sound emanating from the hollow recesses of my cavernous stomach. |
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| Her voice sounded too hollow to be the melodic voice of those pleasant beings. |
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| We carried semi-automatic rifles and shotguns with hollow point shells designed to pierce a boarder's hull right below the water line. |
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| These are hollow casts that partially fill the space once occupied by the original crystals of anhydrite. |
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| The ridges form irregularly situated protuberances that house hollow spines usually 0.05-0.06 mm wide and up to 0.12 mm long. |
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| I wrapped my arms around him and cried into the hollow of his collar bone, putting my fingers through his hair at the nape of his neck. |
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| The hollow cavities were formed as the animal matured and grew to adulthood, erasing the early growth rings. |
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| Rather than phytotoxins, the plant is protected by vicious stinging ants that live within the hollow stems. |
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| Heavier objects can be supported with a molly style hollow wall fastener, a spiral threaded fastener, or a toggle bolt. |
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| Tip a heaped teaspoon of cheese into the hollow then cover it with a second tablespoon of chicken mixture. |
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| It is part of the hollow acoustics of a bankrupt and leaderless opposition. |
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| Hand claps, body slaps, foot stomps, and the hollow sounds of the boxes being hit built into complex and satisfying rhythmic structures. |
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| This new, hollow design used less uranium and more plutonium and created a more powerful explosion as well as a smaller, lighter fission bomb. |
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| It was now precision built of hollow aluminum tubing and boasted an adjustable, double-action spring. |
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| Lashing whips, hollow gunshots, meaningless choruses, whistling, echoing pipes, tubular bells and stylophones are all tipped into the collage. |
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| The grandfather clock in the corner of the room announced the arrival of midnight with twelve, hollow dongs. |
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| My eyes were dull, my cheeks hollow and my lips chapped and dry, no matter how much lip balm I put on them. |
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| I felt an involuntary shudder shake my body at the feel of his hot breath against the sensitive hollow of my neck. |
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| The caissons were huge hollow reinforced concrete blocks that were floated across the channel and then sunk when in position. |
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| Your sinuses are hollow spaces within the bones of your face, behind and above your nose. |
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| Construction of the dome included installing hollow structural members that double as radiator pipes. |
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| She first pins her hopes on a Portuguese captain who turns out to be hollow blusterer. |
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| It's flat and hollow at times, but why would anyone expect more from an old show originally recorded in mono? |
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| One piece is a hollow pillar, which glows lustrously when a bulb is placed inside. |
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| The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered. |
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| To make one, use a hacksaw to sever a section of the main beam, and hollow out the softer center with a rotary rasp. |
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| Before attaching the hollow item, a hole was punched through the body pot so that the trapped air would vent into the space of the body. |
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| There will also be the usual blather about healing wounds and moving on, but such false consolation will ring especially hollow this time around. |
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| In a sense, Watkins's images blaze a trail for the tourist at the expense of the adventurer and hollow out the sublime, leaving only spectacle. |
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| Nests are located on cliffs, in haystacks, hollow trees, or in barns and old buildings. |
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| Halve and stone the apricots and put them, hollow side up, in a heatproof dish. |
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| Carry on across a hollow containing two tarns named Kirkfell Tarn to the North Top of Kirk Fell. |
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| First they cut a little well into bark and fill it with water carried in hollow bamboo. |
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| He is like a younger version of Philip, whose sunken chest, stooped shoulders, and hollow eyes lend him the appearance of a man twice his age. |
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| The steam was generated in a separate boiler and brought into the sphere along a hollow spindle. |
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| Using a paring knife or a melon ball scoop, hollow out the bottom of the cake, keeping the removed section intact. |
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| When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest. |
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| This tasty anti-globalization bonbon may have a slightly hollow centre, however, and the weakness stems, ironically, from a lack of information. |
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| And on the occasions when a pill was mistakenly forgotten, were all the sleepless nights that followed nothing but a hollow joke? |
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| To prevent the Ephialtes or night-mare we hang up a hollow stone in our stables. |
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| A thermocouple was inserted in the hollow probe, and temperatures were recorded. |
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| The plaster sucks away the moisture from the clay and the remaining liquid slip in the hollow is poured out. |
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| The inner shell of a sea urchin is a hollow globe, scored in five curved sections that taper at the ends into a small hole at the top and bottom. |
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| He never pushed his will on her, didn't slobber over her, filling her ears with cheap platitudes and hollow compliments. |
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| Today, it is a hollow cavern offering a grim sanctuary for families displaced by their country's unending war. |
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| His and Dr. Powers' footfalls on the sidewalk were loud and vaguely hollow in the caverns of the cobbled street. |
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| The walls are a feat of engineering, with short flights of stairs within the hollow cavity reaching higher galleries. |
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| Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right. |
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| The Red Balloon was now big and round and felt more alive, now he had substance, a hollow physical body. |
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| Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical. |
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| And once there, I leaned my back against a hollow in a boulder, not the smooth planks of a bench thoughtfully placed in the shade of twin live oaks. |
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| However our parrots, such as lorikeets and rosellas, need weather proof nesting boxes for natural hollow logs fixed a minimum of 3 meters from the ground. |
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| Even when I don't think about it, I feel so hollow and worthless. |
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| Their faces were ashen, sorrow staring back from hollow eyes. |
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| But all that came forth was the hollow click of an empty gun. |
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| The older slang meaning of the phrase is a hollow sarcastic obedience. |
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| Now mostly recycled as fence posts, the hollow demountable poles were used originally to erect telegraphic wires across the Central Australian Desert during the 2nd World War. |
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| And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her. |
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| He pressed a warm kiss into the hollow at the base of her throat. |
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| I heard a small hollow thud from behind me and a little laugh. |
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| Her eyes barely discerned the shape of the hollow log across the river. |
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| Somehow the weekly ceremony had seemed hollow and meaningless to her. |
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| Triangular fibrocartilage complex tenderness is best localized by palpating the hollow between the pisiform and ulnar styloid on the ulnar border of the wrist. |
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| The victory in certain lights does seem indeed to be a hollow miracle. |
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| The swarthy Australian bustled into the box and lashed the ball urgently past Roy, the last, florid statement in what had become a hollow argument. |
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| Those cute little ears of pasta work particularly well with a chunky sauce, as they allow little pools to gather in the hollow of their delicate shape. |
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| The bones are mildly crushed dorsoventrally, particularly the ends of the metacarpals, suggesting that they were originally hollow or composed of open cancellous bone tissue. |
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| Behind him, Hank could hear the hollow clop of tiny hooves approaching. |
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| A half-pipe is a U-shaped hollow cut into the snow in which competitors ski from one side to the other performing an array of tricks on which they are judged on. |
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| The bee nest was actually in a hollow fig tree, right next to the chain. |
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| A Mediterranean sun had just set, and above the school, hollow bells clanged around the necks of goats, and the chatter of crickets filled the night air. |
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| I dropped the pole and it clattered to the pier with a hollow thunk. |
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| The ring of intellect and humour alone risks a hollow sound, but the undeniable success of this show lies beyond the volume, in a kind of pitiful pop-eyed self-awareness. |
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| She finally spotted among the huge trees a gigantic oak with a large hollow at the base of its trunk that was just large enough for a little girl to go hide in and sleep. |
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| Sometimes she brought home honeycomb, dripping with sweet golden stickiness, gained by climbing the hollow tree and raking it out of the hive, risking the wild bees' anger. |
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| In the end, the exasperated adults were compelled to employ the services of a piper, who bewitched the children with music and led them into a hollow mountain. |
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| The subject too tends to be rendered in a formulaic way with the figure positioned centrally or slightly to one side within a rocky hollow or outcrop. |
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| Such fibres might outperform normal optical fibres because light trapped in their hollow core travels through a tenuous gas, rather than a solid glass. |
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| While all the king's horses and all the king's men do build this grand and mighty structure, the sound of their hammers echoes limitlessly in the hollow within. |
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| I run a few drops into the hollow of my palm and wipe my face. |
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| We've had some rain this past couple of weeks but even so the earth is dry and parched still, inclined to ring like a hollow log as the hoe works. |
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| Not only did you restuff the pillows and reupholster the armchair, but you also added an extra layer on the hollow portion on the bottom of the chair. |
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| I am tired of Mr.Beattie and his hollow apologies, his cavalier attitude to our problems and his habit of making jokes and trivialising important issues. |
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| Moments later, she saw headlights in the middle distance and moved off the road, into the low hollow at the side, where she flicked off the torch and crouched low. |
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| The hollow of the bell symbolizes the wisdom cognizing emptiness. |
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| Utterly predictable, full of wooden acting and ringing with hollow family-values thematics, this is thoroughly banal and barely worth looking back on. |
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| Its call is a series of clear, hollow whistles, all on one pitch. |
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| The actuator body pivots about a pivot axis and is attached to the cartridge bearing assembly disposed within an inner hollow of the actuator body. |
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| A yellow ray of flowers appears on a long fleshy hollow stem. |
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| It hit a tree with a hollow clunk and bounced back to land at his feet. |
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| The boy stood like a statue, looking at the ink in the hollow of his hand. |
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| Our destination was a semi-submersible oil rig, by which I mean that most of it, two enormous hollow vessels, each the size of a warship, floated beneath the surface. |
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| Hey, a hollow victory is better than no victory at all, right? |
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| The gold buckle does not feel like a real dress item, and may have been a reliquary, its hollow box once containing a sacred fragment of bone or textile. |
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| Tyrannosaurs shared a number of characteristics with birds, including hollow bones, feet with three primary toes that all pointed forward, and a wishbone. |
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| The list of requested materiel provides a window into a hollow and outmatched Ukrainian military. |
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| They would carry a block of ochre to the nearest waterhole or spring, mix ochre and water into a paste and shape it again into a block, with a slight hollow at the bottom. |
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| Which countries supply the most exports of watch glasses, glass for spectacles not optically worked, and hollow glass spheres and segments for sphere manufacture? |
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| Then today I was weeding the bed in front of my house and lifted a mop of variegated grass to see a toad looking at me from a hollow he'd made in the shade of my porch. |
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| A regiment of United States lancers were drawn up in a hollow square round the Lethal Chamber. |
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| Spread up the sides of the moulds and make a hollow and then fill with cooked mince, top with the crumb mixture and bake in a low oven to warm through. |
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| Albion scored a second to virtual silence, for it seemed a hollow victory. |
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| In the hollow of this tiny valley, lay a white public house. |
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| They brought the eggs back to Constantinople in hollow canes. |
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| Despite the hammering and sawing, the dirt and the dust on Sunday, one could see that this is not a hollow claim because the structure is indeed audacious. |
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| When the bread is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped, it is done. |
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| When passing an electrical conductor through a conducting panel at high voltages, our hollow pair lead-ins provide optimum insulation and strength. |
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| The broken hollow path bending upwards round the base, is always occupied by a grotesque group of cripples and beldames, in rags and tatters, laughing and whining and praying. |
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| The hollow spin of backroom politicos has cheapened political discourse, and journalists often compound this with lazy attempts at the appearance of balance. |
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| The aim was always to hollow out the more moderate party and supplant it. |
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