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hollow-eyed
[ hol-oh-ahyd ]
adjective
- having sunken eyes.
hollow-eyed
adjective
- with the eyes appearing to be sunk into the face, as from excessive fatigue
Word History and Origins
Origin of hollow-eyed1
Example Sentences
But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.
Two weeks later Ahmad resurfaced in a video posted to the Web, staring hollow-eyed at the camera in front of a bare concrete wall.
The change in the rosy-cheeked boy was startling: pale and hollow-eyed, he walked with a weak, halting step.
After his money was all spent, he started up river for the log-drive, hollow-eyed, shaking.
Once more he was only a plain, sad-looking man, hollow-eyed and hollow-cheeked, with bent head and stooping frame.
And he had waited there long with his hollow-eyed mother, crouching before the feeble fire, starving with hunger.
Might not these walls have rung with lunatic screams after months and years of hollow-eyed watching for the ship that never came?
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