emptiness

Example Sentences

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When his messages didn’t appear on my phone, I felt a sense of emptiness that only he was able to fill.

From Los Angeles Times

There is only emptiness: a hollow space where a heart should be, ready to be filled with cold, hard cash.

From Salon

He described the anguish caused by the shooting — “the emptiness, the lack of understanding, the desperate desire for answers, the desperate need for hope,” he said.

From New York Times

Its emptiness is what gives it so much power as a propaganda term.

From Salon

"Each chair is a symbol of the emptiness felt back at home," Stephen Lodewyck, director of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, said.

From Reuters