What is "hollowing out"

Usage examples of "hollowing out".

A lot of new colonies were starting out there: people were hollowing out asteroids, then spinning them to create a gravity effect on their insides, then moving in.

Even as men worked the stone high above, passing the shards and grit and pebbles back into the light, hand over hand, others scraped far below them in the darkness, taking away the detritus through a longer tunnel, hollowing out rooms, building a foundation for a new city, then pulling back.

The African trees have a delicate foliage, mostly digitate, so that when you have cleared away the dense undergrowth, so to say hollowing out the forest, the light is like the light in a beechwood in May at home, when the leaves are just unfolded, or hardly unfolded yet.

He ran instantly into the street, hollowing out that his wife was in the agonies of death, and beseeching the neighbours to fly with the utmost haste to her assistance.

The labor of hollowing out a huge diamond, however, invested it with a value beyond that of the material itself.

They've been hollowing out a section from the actual keel timber of the galleys.

I made good use of them, hollowing out a nest of sorts, pulling them over me when I settled into it.

Yet, knowing all that, I could only stare around me and wonder at the fact that the Project had been able to make even a convincing start at hollowing out this chasm beneath the Lunar surface in the late 1940s.

And in the neighbourhood of Syracuse they showed the place where Hades plunged back into the earth, hollowing out a vast cavity in the process, since filled by waters from the spring of Cyane.

So they'd eat the agate, hollowing out the boulder and making it lighter so it could travel faster--well, if not faster, at least a little easier.