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

Maybe I was too distracted by the nonstop vacations and fancy gifts to notice the emptiness in her eyes.

From Literature

I couldn’t see anything except blackness, or hear anything except a kind of ringing, and all I felt was emptiness everywhere around me.

From Literature

The summer dragged by in a blur of emptiness.

From Literature

That explosion of tomato and garlic, the ooze of cheese, it erased the smell of bleach that had scorched his nostrils; it filled up the hollow emptiness that yawned in his belly.

From Literature