hollow

f. oymak
i. boşluk, çukur
s. boş, oyuk, delik

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka

Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

Harker was silent for awhile and then said in a hollow voice, Let us talk of that part of it in the morning.

He had found a wonderful spot, a sort of natural hollow in a rock, with an entrance like a doorway between two boulders.

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