emptiness

Example Sentences

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Coulson's twin said she had been left with an overwhelming sense of emptiness.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Maintaining this pleasant emptiness is no easy task, as ghosts of Charles’s past slowly begin to invade his idyll.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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

He might have made a decent living that way—may even have been treated as a celebrity—but from a distance, we can see the emptiness, the pain.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander