How to Use ring hollow in a Sentence

ring hollow

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• But these words ring hollow, as there is no redemption to be found.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• From the last month, the moral victories ring hollow once again.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2021
• The robotic and programmed words of politicians ring hollow and don’t work.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• But Gilpin’s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 15 June 2022
• Those words, however, will ring hollow if the problems persist.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• But his critics say such overtures ring hollow without a clear strategy.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 4 June 2025
• But without Scope 3 emissions in those plans, the entire effort can ring hollow.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 15 June 2022
• But for people living in fence-line communities, those words too often ring hollow.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• For some in the industry, though, the proclamations so far ring hollow, lacking detailed strategies.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• All of the oohs, aahhs and highlight-reels moments will ring hollow if DeChambeau does not reach the winner’s circle.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• To people like Brown, James’ words of extreme disappointment ring hollow now.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• The action moves so fast that emotional moments pop up out of nowhere, and Ernestine's responses ring hollow.
  — Dave Quinn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• But some of those promises ring hollow, advocates say, or have been hard to maintain in a competitive marketplace.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• The claim might ring hollow if societies that call themselves democracies pursue policies that conflict with what their people want.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• With the welfare state under pressure, appeals for sacrifice from corrupt mullahs ring hollow.
  — Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
• Those words ring hollow to Steven's grieving mother, Jennifer Freeman.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 24 July 2021
• For some, the American promise of freedom and prosperity seemed to ring hollow.
  — Geoffrey Baym, The Conversation, 5 May 2025
• Asking the winningest head coach in program history (446 victories) about the hows and whys of this one would ring hollow.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2021
• His cries ring hollow when his team cut payroll by nearly $50 million over two years and is barely keeping pace with the majority of the league.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
• The administration's insistence that a ceasefire is still within reach is starting to ring hollow.
  — Zachary Basu, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• But Hughes’ comment could ring hollow to business leaders and sports leagues that are being pressured to stand up to voter suppression.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
• Still, her crisis of conscience leads to actions that ring hollow, to chillingly robotic imitations of true feeling.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
• And attempts to convince people of the tremendous value of parenthood may ring hollow if they aren’t paired with material support.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
• Today, the world honors refugees, and celebrates their courage and resilience–but a failure to address a growing crisis means, this year, the words of support may ring hollow.
  — Dianne Calvi, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• And that’s a stirring sentiment, except … Mike has no idea who’s responsible for fork lifting the bus, so his vengeful promises ring hollow.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 July 2024
• Policymakers and utilities alike have stalled for too long and claimed reforms are too hard, but in the face of skyrocketing demand, such excuses ring hollow.
  — Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025
• The earlier threat from the president of confrontation on reform seems to ring hollow as more Americans prepare to bury their dead, killed in the latest hail of gunfire.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 28 May 2021
• But to some of the Indigenous people and members of other underrepresented groups that are attending, those claims ring hollow.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Yet these complaints ring hollow in the mouths of a commentariat that spent the election season boasting that Kamala Harris’s centrism was working.
  — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• If there are no consequences for failing to live your values, the words ring hollow, and employees will not invest discretionary effort in the company, but rather, simply go through the motions.
  — Sheryl Lyons, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021