empty space

Example Sentences

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It emerges from trust: the willingness to run into empty space believing someone will find you there.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The thief hadn’t stolen a famous painting whose absence would leave an empty space on a gallery wall.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

There is an empty space beneath her windowsills where the radiators used to sit -- removed after the water started freezing and bursting the pipes.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The modified equations, known as the Finsler-Friedmann equations, naturally predict an accelerating universe even in empty space.

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026

Marco looks down, surprised to find that he has been holding his right hand in his left, unconsciously stroking the empty space where a ring was once burned into his skin.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern