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hollow-eyed

ADJECTIVE
  1. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

How To Use hollow-eyed In A Sentence

  • She was like a phantom of her former self, her once luxurious hair falling straight to either side of her hollow-eyed face. SACRAMENT
  • Before the broom ever touched the object, he froze, his hand suspended in midair over a long-toothed, lowbrowed, hollow-eyed yellow skull. Song of Time
  • His good looks remained, but he was hollow-eyed and pale.
  • He advanced towards me, correct, supple, hollow-eyed, and smiling; and as to his costume ready to go out except for the old shooting jacket which he must have affectioned particularly, for he never lost any time in getting into it at every opportunity. The Arrow of Gold
  • Dawn sees a group of hollow-eyed divers gathered on the beach in a fine drizzle, staring slack-jawed at serried ranks of white horses charging towards us atop crackling green breakers.
  • Take the hollow-eyed, haunted-looking male who came up to me and confided: ‘You don't know the half of it.
  • Somebody suggested he probably looks a little more hollow-eyed and gaunt, because he's probably lost some weight, but it's worth the effort.
  • The children looked pinched and hollow-eyed for want of food.
  • Handing them back to their parents, I was a shell of my former self - weak, hollow-eyed, a little hysterical.
  • Often I am ill with my growing pains and the breathing I am not supposed to think about and raging headaches that leave me hollow-eyed. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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