emptiness
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The inquiry heard he was presentable, washed and clean, but that Celeste felt there was "a kind of emptiness" in him.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
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
Heraskevych meanwhile told the BBC that being banned only left him feeling "emptiness."
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
There is only emptiness: a hollow space where a heart should be, ready to be filled with cold, hard cash.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025
I saw only emptiness and fear and a kind of sudden, total end to things that I had never experienced before.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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