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hollowness
noun as in emptiness
Example Sentences
This is silence in the face of presidential attacks on the constitutional order — a silence that rings out across the prairies and down the hollows as approval and permission.
Some air also moves into the gadget’s hollow walls, eliminating cold spots.
And, because the supports are hollow, wiring for accessories like solar panels can live inside where they’re protected from the elements.
Despite the relatively hollow structure, the Supersport-35 still weighs about the same as a typical blade putter.
The hollow hairs are made of silica, the same substance in glass.
But the closing of one school after another exposes the hollowness of those promises.
My voice sounded cheerful and supportive, properly concealing the hollowness I felt.
In his voluble, guns-blazing manner, Adrover made the hollowness of New York Fashion Week, which ends Thursday, apparent.
We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
There were no tears in his eyes, but a feeling of hollowness about his heart, and a great pain.
They gave off a muffled clink of hollowness when he tapped them.
Then she rapped the floor and walls, and could discover no indications of hollowness.
Had his best days of happiness been, then, nothing but hollowness and self-deception?
We used especially to open our minds, la Mandeville, on the hollowness of human virtue.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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