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

The score goes on for the next hour to allude to a surreal emptiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Now, lying thick and still under the cover of plastic seats, the cavernous emptiness of the place mirrors the void left since it is modern reincarnation in the late 1990s.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Observers noted echoes of Fitzgerald’s novel in the scene: a world obsessed with appearances, where glitter and spectacle mask the emptiness beneath.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

She sat there for a moment, mute, and felt an emptiness within her where for years her own sustaining hate had been.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor