emptiness

Example Sentences

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"I'm struggling to put into words the profound emptiness I'm feeling since learning of James Ransone's passing," she wrote on her Instagram story.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

"Overnight they became our offices, sanctuaries and emotional anchors," he says, adding that against this backdrop, pushing the Colour of the Year towards "further visual emptiness feels rather tone-deaf".

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

Exhaustion, frustration, sadness, anger, the impulse to judge and even emptiness are normal.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

Much of “Flour” is concerned with the woman’s conversation with her driver about a parable from the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas that he is translating from Coptic—a tale, he says, about emptiness and unknowing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The world changed to gray and emptiness, and Conor knew exactly where he was, exactly what the world had changed into.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness