Sentence examples for growing hollow from inspiring English sources

But these threats are growing hollow.

Growing hollow cylinders of titanium oxide, called nanotubes, increases the surface area, allowing more molecules to be captured.

In flagella, the extracellular hook and flagellar filament are formed by the secretion of subunits directly from the cytoplasm through the base complex and through the growing hollow filament (Macnab, 2004).

Life becomes calcified, until "the days and weeks smooth themselves out … and the years grow hollow and collapse".

In Champaigne's dispassionate portraits we watch Richelieu's hair turn gray and his cheeks grow hollow.

The story drifts with Charley, in and out of peril, and becomes a doleful picaresque; as his face grows hollow and besmirched, we desperately want him to survive.

No less than the great William James opined on the matter, thinking that the apparent speed of time's passage was a result of adults' experiencing fewer memorable events: "Each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse".

Both the fragments have tapered their bodies so as to grow hollow CNFs in between themselves.

The samples were obtained by depositing a Cu2O layer on the Au surface of Au particle-decorated TiO2 nanowires, followed by the sulfidation treatment on Cu2O layer to grow hollow Cu7S4 shell.

The laugh grows hollower when I ask if her nine months in the job were happy.

With in vitro grown hollow-headed chickens strutting their stuff in this delightfully strange animated world, it's exactly the sort of absurdity you need to temper the weekend's excesses and ease you back into Monday.