nothingness

Example Sentences

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Hanna’s grief for Erik is the key to her art, but so is the nothingness he seems to have disappeared into.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The line between nothingness and death is thin.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025

I want it to almost feel like nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

“That’s what baseball’s all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that there’s actually a lot happening.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

I sat down and stared in the microscope, into white nothingness.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston