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
My nights are draped in the silence of emptiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
"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
She knew that friends and neighbors—even old friends and good neighbors—couldn’t fill the emptiness in his heart.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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