emptiness

Example Sentences

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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

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

Lang’s ultimate suggestion of emptiness, in performance, entails erasing his own texts, his own purpose.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

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 • Nov. 18, 2025

Sarai imagined it empty, all those mazy lanes and mussed-up beds deserted, and she felt, for a staggering moment, as though she were drowning in that emptiness.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor