emptiness
Example Sentences
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The women's father said their deaths had "left an emptiness that words cannot heal."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
He spoke of feeling "pain and emptiness" about the defeat, taking full personal responsibility for what happened.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 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
The emptiness of such platitudes in this moment leaves much to be desired.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026
Even now I can taste the echo of it, the emptiness it would fill, the giddy, delirious joy it promises.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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