emptiness
Example Sentences
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He spoke of feeling "pain and emptiness" about the defeat, taking full personal responsibility for what happened.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
In sealing the names of the dead within them, the yizkor books refill that emptiness with the promise of memory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The emptiness of such platitudes in this moment leaves much to be desired.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026
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
There was desperation in all she said, an emptiness at its core, or something excluded or unnamed that made her talk faster, and exaggerate with less conviction.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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