emptiness

Example Sentences

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In sealing the names of the dead within them, the yizkor books refill that emptiness with the promise of memory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

When his messages didn’t appear on my phone, I felt a sense of emptiness that only he was able to fill.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2025

There is only emptiness: a hollow space where a heart should be, ready to be filled with cold, hard cash.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

Now, lying thick and still under the cover of plastic seats, the cavernous emptiness of the place mirrors the void left since it is modern reincarnation in the late 1990s.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Colonel Gerineldo Márquez was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez