emptiness
Example Sentences
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Mr. Smith is an insightful filmmaker and “Bring Me the Beauties” is a stylishly constructed parable about naivete and spiritual emptiness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Then layer that emptiness over the images here.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The women's father said their deaths had "left an emptiness that words cannot heal."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
The inquiry heard he was presentable, washed and clean, but that Celeste felt there was "a kind of emptiness" in him.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
I rub my hand across my face and I think it’s the emptiness where Manchee used to be that makes me realize, realize what we never wanted to know.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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