Sentence examples for merely hollow from inspiring English sources

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Should the supreme court overrule the ninth circuit, the victory won in the lower courts would be not merely hollow, but actively counterproductive.

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This event was merely a hollow victory that failed to secure Poland's future.

Wyatt was motivated by a desire to end "this era of lies", beginning with Cena, because he wanted to expose to the world that Cena being an upholder of all that is moral and good and right was merely a hollow illusion.

The stipe is merely a firm, hollow tube, able to withstand the open air of low tide conditions as well as the crashing waves of high tide.

The works at Panduwewa, according to Parker (1981), is the first great reservoir ever constructed, if the great lakes of Egypt, which are merely immense natural hollows into which streams were turned, are not considered.

Just another hollow directive.

This was not merely one of those hollow excuses you hear from retiring athletes and corporate executives, the one about wanting to spend more time with their families.

Although he made the requisite apology and quarterback Michael Vick, for one, said he accepted it despite his brother's Twitter rant to the contrary, the Eagles' decision to merely fine Cooper rings hollow, Phil Sheridan writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This kind of shift risks sounding hollow, but Ty Dolla $ign is far too easygoing and not nearly famous or cynical enough to engage in the merely performative exercise of reputation reform.

Approaches to this vary from cooking them and leaving them to cool – from the blogger Lizzie Mabbott, aka Hollow Legs – to merely soaking in warm water: Ken Hom suggests 25 minutes, Delia Smith (who credits her recipe to the late, great restauranteur Ken Lo) 15 minutes and Ching-He Huang a paltry 10.

Hollow doors are merely sheets of veneer over a cardboard core.

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