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Example sentences for "hollowing"

Lexicographically close words:
holloing; hollow; hollowe; hollowed; hollower; hollowly; hollowness; hollows; holluschickie; holly
  1. He appears to be in sole charge; and if hollowing loud was worth fifty cents a hollow he'd be a millionaire inside of a month if his voice didn't give out on him.

  2. The Indians were riding our horses and hollowing and shouting the whole day.

  3. Another way of hollowing the boat is to begin boring centre-bit holes as close together as possible, being careful not to bore too deep, then gouge out as much wood as you safely can, finish with file and sand-paper.

  4. The following tools will be found useful in making exact models of boats, hollowing them out, etc.

  5. This is an indispensable tool when hollowing out a boat.

  6. An Eskimo Canoe= is very easily made by pointing the ends very sharply and hollowing out a hole in the centre (Fig.

  7. It was literally "a concave, hollowing site.

  8. In the evening, however, just when our baby would get to sleep, he would come out and commence his hollowing and wake her up again.

  9. One afternoon when the other family were out, he came out on the porch, or veranda, and commenced hollowing lustily, and I loaded my shot gun and brought him down.

  10. He finally remembered a second Indian way of making a boat by hollowing out a large log.

  11. After he had shaped his boat, he began hollowing it out.

  12. FN: The Indians often make use of a very rude, primitive sort of mortar, by hollowing out a bass-wood stump, and rubbing the rice with a wooden pounder.

  13. Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log.

  14. It will be seen that the snow masses have recessed the mountain slopes at A and formed deep hollows and that the hollowing action appears to be most effective where the snow is thickest.

  15. Yet the process of hollowing goes forward visibly and in time will produce serrate forms.

  16. We kept going the longer, because we heard the Voice of Men hollowing towards Evening: which created us a fresh disturbance, thinking them to be People that were coming to chace us.

  17. The Voice which we heard still continued, which lasting so long we knew what it meant; it was nothing but the hollowing of People that lay to watch the Corn Fields, to scare away the wild Beasts out of their Corn.

  18. Elks horn, in Splitting their fire wood and in hollowing out their Canoes.

  19. Before finally quitting this hollowing out of the back, gauge for the last time, then use fine sandpaper, and leave no mark of any tool whatever, as by clean work you will be judged.

  20. Before, however, you can do anything in hollowing out the back, you will have to provide yourselves with a bed in which your table must firmly rest while you do so.

  21. So at length we come to the hollowing out and to the thicknesses of the belly.

  22. The chief instrument was a large drum, made by hollowing out a section of a tree trunk, and covering the ends with rawhide, which were tightly laced on with strips of the same material.

  23. So, working day and night, he speedily prepared the trunk of a pinion tree by hollowing it out from one end.

  24. Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks.

  25. When the specimens are small they can be placed upon a piece of mica, and then presented to the flame; or a clay receptacle can be made for the purpose, by simply hollowing out a small cavity in one side of a lump of clay.

  26. The hollowing out of the inside is most conveniently accomplished with a sharp gouge and mallet, while the hull is secured firmly in a vise.

  27. In this way the stone was hollowed--though the hollowing had not been made visible to the naked eye of Mr. Smirkie.

  28. The mayor took the rebuke with placid good-humour, feeling that his little drop might also have done something towards hollowing the stone.

  29. Theoretical Section of the same Vein of Clay converted into a Cavern, after the hollowing out of Valleys by Diluvial Waters 57 21.

  30. In hollowing out the tree they used both their stone implements and also the action of fire.

  31. Theoretical Section of a Vein of Clay in the Carboniferous Limestone, before the hollowing out of Valleys by Diluvial Waters 56 20.

  32. Theoretical section of the same Vein of Clay converted into a Cavern, after the hollowing out of Valleys by diluvial Waters.

  33. This alluvium was composed of a gravelly deposit, which geologists refer to the great inundations which, during the epoch of the great bear and the mammoth, gave to Europe, by hollowing out its valleys, its present vertical outline.

  34. The meal obtained by this pressure and friction made its way down the slope in the hollowing out of the stone, and was caught in a piece of matting, or something of the kind.

  35. Theoretical Section of a Vein of Clay in the Carboniferous Limestone, before the hollowing out of Valleys by diluvial Waters.

  36. If this is granted, we have but to consider the mountains as formed by the hollowing out of the valleys, and the valleys as hollowed out by the attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains.

  37. Thus we have seen the operation of the atmospheric elements degrading mountains, and hollowing out the valleys of this earth.

  38. After this is all satisfactorily done, the lines may be traced which are to act as guides for the hollowing of the peg-box.

  39. Here is shown the wisdom of the earlier Italian masters when introducing the channelled model, the hollowing being a preservation against damage by the impetuous repairer.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hollowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.