emptiness

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Salon

The score goes on for the next hour to allude to a surreal emptiness.

From Los Angeles Times

Though it approaches its subject with a certain formal neutrality, the title, a phrase now synonymous with political emptiness, does suggest a point of view.

From Los Angeles Times

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