emptiness
Example Sentences
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Mr. Smith is an insightful filmmaker and “Bring Me the Beauties” is a stylishly constructed parable about naivete and spiritual emptiness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Speaking following Wednesday's investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle he said he felt "emptiness" at the team's league position, but insisted he remained "optimistic that we will remain in the Premier League".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Lift up your eyes unto the hills, and behold all that delightful emptiness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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
Now the sound of stick on fence carried off into the trees, but it didn’t fill the emptiness.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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